Hi, Ardith Hinton : Paul Quinn!
I read your message from 08.12.2019 00:46


 PQ>> A good stenographer is worth a dozen typists.

 AH> Thankyou. My mother was a stenographer. Like the "secretary" at a
 AH> small school she had various other duties as well. But she told me
 AH> that when she was taking "business courses" she chose to learn
 AH> bookkeeping & shorthand, both of which were elective subjects,
 AH> while the majority of people apparently didn't believe they would
 AH> be successful or couldn't be bothered.

So did I. I was envy looking at shorthand writing, but I knew for myself that I
would never manage to learn it. ;-)

 PQ>> In days of old, I had a 24 year long career and knew of only two
 PQ>> stenographers at that workplace.

 AH> As my father might have said, they're "as scarce as hens' teeth"...
 AH> especially nowadays. When I mentioned to one of our daughter's
 AH> young friends awhile ago that my mother was a stenographer she
 AH> didn't understand what I was referring to although she herself has
 AH> a university degree.

Probably, stenographers disappeared after the dictaphone had been invented.

(is "the" correct here?)


Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2019

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