
BACK TO PART 1: www.youtube.com BACK TO PART 2: www.youtube.com For more information, go to my Web site about it, pitmanshorthand.homestead.com ("The Joy of Pitman Shorthand") This is a revised form of the old video, to correct the focus.) I made an unpolished little video to illustrate some basics of Pitman writing. At the time, I couldn't find anything else on YouTube about it, but here are two new videos by others A woman writes a religious text in Pitman Shorthand, though it is mostly vowel-less: www.youtube.com A man writes a text in Spanish Pitman. Abbreviations are different, of course, assigned to common Spanish words, but the consonants are all the same: www.youtube.com (More links to Pitman and other shorthand sites can be found by clicking the "Books and Links" button there.) A COMPLETE description of the theory is here: www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand.org.uk ( "Long Live Pitman's Shorthand") Also good is this guy's site, heavy in diagrams explaining the Pitman strokes: www.shorthand.mkz.com ("Pitman for Geeks") Pitman Shorthand was actually used to represent the written language of the Vogons, the bureaucratic and ugly aliens in the movie version of the science-fiction comedy, THE HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (2005). Those fortunate enough to know Pitman will recognize phrases in the movie like "Presidential Release Form", "Demolition Order", "Information Deleted" and a Vogon poster saying "Depressed? Try Destruction Therapy!" www.onrec.com For the Gregg <b>...</b>
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