1. Exquisite Tweets from @hormiga, @upbeatprof, @tenorclef530, @doughshiyo, @JMatt_62, @freechurrosyeah

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    Shorthand was absolutely wild

    10:39pm Mar 11th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone

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    Terry McGlynn

    I opened up this book and my whole being could only shout WHAT THE FUCK?!

    10:40pm Mar 11th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to hormiga

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    Terry McGlynn

  3. How is this even a thing. How did this exist.

    10:44pm Mar 11th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to hormiga

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    Terry McGlynn

  4. My mom was offered jobs over other applicants solely on the basis of her shorthand ability.

    10:52pm Mar 11th 2023 via Twitter for Android in reply to hormiga

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    Caroline Coward

  5. This just blows my mind. I didn’t realize it was a whole other language, and a super hard weird impossible one. These folks should have been the ones getting paid the big bucks if this is what they had to do, my gosh.

    10:57pm Mar 11th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to tenorclef530

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    Terry McGlynn

  6. As a kid I was obsessed with the lady in The Westing Game who kept notes in Polish shorthand so no one could read them.

    10:57pm Mar 11th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to hormiga

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    どうしよう

  9. Now I understand why. Gosh. Thank you for sharing.

    11:00pm Mar 11th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to JMatt_62

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    Terry McGlynn

  10. I’ll interpret dragon - d=slanted line to the right, r= bottom open curve, a= circle, g= hump shape, n= short line. All written in order of the sounds you hear not the names of the letters.

    11:05pm Mar 11th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to hormiga

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    JRM

  11. Thanks! (While it’s phonetic, it’s so terse that it takes time and lots of effort to learn how to do it?)

    11:09pm Mar 11th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to JMatt_62

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    Terry McGlynn

  13. My take-home is that shorthand is like so many talents that were highly gendered and required a ton of effort but weren’t valued as much as they should have been, like weaving, baking, mathematical computing, etc. Our mothers and grandmothers deserved so much more.

    6:26am Mar 12th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to hormiga

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    Terry McGlynn

    My mom was trained by a brokerage to do commodities training on Wall Street and did this work on the down low. But she wasn’t allowed to get her trading license because gender. Then she finally got married at the advanced age of 30, so the firm fired her as a matter of policy.

    6:32am Mar 12th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to hormiga

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    Terry McGlynn

    If anything has made me a feminist (other than just living in this earth and seeing what happens every day), it’s this.

    6:33am Mar 12th 2023 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to hormiga

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    Terry McGlynn

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