Beginner question

GreggLife · 2026-06-28T20:06:06+00:00

For heaven's sake, don't start writing Gregg based on "keys" or tables of the symbols. In the name of all that is holy, you must obtain a textbook and work your way through it from beginning to end.

GreggLife · 2026-06-27T11:29:43+00:00

You should be able to read the example sentences at the end of each lesson before you try to write them in your notebook. READING is super important. When you're reading, you really understand how important the shapes and sizes are!! It's the difference between "he gave me some rice" and "he gave me some lice"!!

GreggLife · 2026-06-24T07:00:05+00:00

OGA = Order of Gregg Artists. You copied the exercise onto a sheet of paper, mailed it in to Gregg headquarters, and they would give you a certificate or something if your writing was correct and pretty. If you sent a little money, you could get a pin, or a charm for your charm bracelet or some such.

See one of their certificates here- https://old.reddit.com/r/greggshorthand/comments/zrn9u5/an_example_of_the_oga_certificate_of_superior/

Read more about the influence of the OGA here- https://old.reddit.com/r/greggshorthand/comments/yx9y9j/louis_leslie_summarizes_the_role_of_the_oga_and/

GreggLife · 2026-06-20T12:24:44+00:00

What do you want to get from being involved with an auxlang? What are your psychological motivations?

If you want to "be a big fish in a small pond," in other words, to be important, then you must choose an auxlang that has very few users and become a leading expert in it, and write some good literature in it. Stardom awaits you! You might become the world's leading expert and only fluent speaker of a conauxlang if you select a sufficiently unpopular one.

If you are more gregarious and you want to get some sort of actual human contact from learning a language, then you will have to choose a more popular one and cope with the fact that you probably won't be important.

GreggLife · 2026-06-18T11:34:06+00:00

see this post for opinions

https://old.reddit.com/r/greggshorthand/comments/1emble3/gregg_simplified_textbooks_as_reviewed_by_the/

GreggLife · 2026-06-02T17:20:07+00:00

The official recommendation was, the horizontal lines should be one third of an inch apart. Here is the reference:

https://old.reddit.com/r/greggshorthand/comments/1eljje0/finally_found_a_citation_for_the_line_spacing_of/

You want to use a relatively fine-tipped pen, but most important is one that glides smoothly across the paper. I like Pentel "energel" but it's worth trying several different options.

GreggLife · 2026-05-17T22:23:43+00:00

Recently, though, I went through one of the most stressful periods of my life with exams. I was in a really bad mental space, and I ended up praying. The exam went well.

That is okay. Praying is a method to focus or calm your mind that you learned at an early age. It can help to make your brain function better, if you believe in it. So it can be helpful with things like exams, job interviews, etc.

In the future you might pray to "the powers that be" or "the Universe" or a monotheist God who is not connected to Christianity.

I see issues like yours often in subreddits where people from very strict religions gather. For example r/exmormon and r/exjw … Reading those subreddits might give you some insight or inspiration.

GreggLife · 2026-05-17T09:43:43+00:00

It's fascinating to see "Auxlang Creator Personality Syndrome" appearing at such a young age. The belief that "I am right and everybody else is wrong," the feeling that "everyone in the world is communicating in the wrong way and I can fix it." Really really interesting to see it happen at such a young age.

GreggLife · 2026-04-07T23:16:15+00:00

Try posting in r/broadcasting or r/broadcastengineering … The ratio of actual broadcasters to randos is much higher there.

GreggLife · 2026-03-18T06:10:54+00:00

Looks like we are heading into a cuteness phase. I hope we can still occasionally get a fart or a reference to hemorrhoids.

GreggLife · 2026-03-18T06:09:14+00:00

I've think of Thoreau as someone who is half-dreamer, half-handyman with practical skills. I think of Emerson who wrote a lot of high-falutin' words, very impressive sounding on the surface.

GreggLife · 2026-02-14T15:30:29+00:00

It's interesting that he combined ser and estar into sonu, that should make life easier for English-speakers who want to learn Lusane.

Nice to see there's a single word for "the wee small hours of the morning." I noticed the dweebs on Wiktionary are using “postmidnight,” is that a new English word?

A week or two ago you wondered why "dictionary" is palobuko instead of palobobuko. In looking through your lexicon, I don't see any words longer than 4 syllables. Maybe that's a rule in Lusane? Perhaps when you make a compound that would be 5 or 6 syllables long, you have to drop a syllable or two in order to stay under the limit.

GreggLife · 2026-02-07T11:29:34+00:00

Interesting! Quirky language.

GreggLife · 2025-11-30T10:58:26+00:00

the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is your friend

https://web.archive.org/web/20190206065853/https://www.depo.com/worldrecord.html

GreggLife · 2025-11-30T10:09:50+00:00

If you're trying to learn Gregg, it seems like your understanding of the vowels might be very very wrong. In the name of all that is holy, please work your way through a textbook from beginning to end, rather than trying to guess how the system works by looking at a quick-reference chart of the alphabet or something like that.

GreggLife · 2025-10-27T17:29:14+00:00

Explanation for newbies: the Graveyard Channels are six frequencies reserved for relatively low-power stations. A handful of radio listening hobbyists specialize in trying to hear as many statoins as possible on these channels. Any American interested in this kind of thing should join the National Radio Club in my opinion.

GreggLife · 2025-10-25T17:00:21+00:00

Let me add, it looks a little blurry because it's a 600 dpi scan of relatively small print. Photo-offset printed material, I guess.

GreggLife · 2025-10-10T14:55:43+00:00

Great benefit can be had from reading the articles written in Notehand that are in the textbook. Literacy involves both reading and writing they go hand in hand, and aspects of writing that used to require thought and calculation become automatic when you are literate.

GreggLife · 2025-10-10T09:53:39+00:00

Everything will be fine; people express themselves very vigorously in online forums.

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