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Shorthand: Not the Opposite of Longhand

Shorthand is for those of you who want to write faster, eventually in a manner comparable to that of the Flash In this three-session course, participants will be using a variation of an earlier system of shorthand (forget Pitman, we're going way, way back) developed by Thomas Shelton in the 1600s that is known for being easy to learn, and awesome. If you are so inclined, we could believe Wikipedia's claim that Sir Isaac Newton used it to write his own notes (and maybe grocery lists).

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