One of our journalists was on the train and took a few minutes to practice his shorthand. A guy learns across to him and says “Why are you learning that dirty language?”

😯 😆

He has a point. With so much technology available shorthand seems dirty.

A guy learns across

Like Drac says, with all the predictive text and spellchecker stuff available why go so low tech? 🙂

Language is evil.

Did that really happen?

One of our journalists was on the train and took a few minutes to practice his shorthand.

This is so wrong. Why would you want to practice? Shorthand is all about scribbling something then trying to guess what the hell you wrote four hours later back in the office.

Still miles better than any modern tech though. Plodding through hours of audio recording is a PITA.

It did really happen. I suppose at a quick glance it could be Arabic, but even so…

Ooh! Good spot on the typo RubberBucc

It did really happen

Like really? Not in a film or nowt?

“Did that really happen?”

Must have, journalists never jazz up stories to generate more interest…

It did really happen.

I’m probably being cynical but IME people rarely speak to each other on a train. Never mind a very aggressive statement like that.

We don’t have to make things up as so much is happening. Only next Monday there will be the official launch of the new doggy poo bag dispenser in Thatcham.

It did really happen.

journalist- FAKE NEWS!!

IME people rarely speak to each other on a train. Never mind a very aggressive statement like that

Unless they’re in the quiet carriage 😕

the official launch of the new doggy poo bag dispenser in Thatcham.

Greenham Common needs this!!

^
this is true

practice his shorthand

Meeting with Trump?

On a crowded train as I was standing up I was able to read what the man sitying down was reading.
Across the top in big red letters it said SECRET EYES ONLY.
Luckily I can keep a secret.

Sounds like story from last year where an economics professor was escorted from a flight and interviewed, after the woman sitting next to him had seen him writing “strange symbols” (differential equations) in his notepad.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/

On a crowded train as I was standing up I was able to read what the man sitying down was reading.
Across the top in big red letters it said SECRET EYES ONLY.
Luckily I can keep a secret.

To be fair, daft security classifications get stuck on all sorts of stuff which isn’t at all secret.

I had a complete set of Russian maps of Afghanistan, all with NATO SECRET written on them, which I thought was a bit ironic…..