Ethos Public Relations Manchester

Back to school for Ethos public relations

by Rob

Making New Year resolutions is all the rage at the minute so we thought that we would get in on the act and make one ourselves. We have decided that we are going to learn or re-learn shorthand!

A few of us were taught shorthand at university but after a few years of sporadically using it we thought it was about time that we sat down and refreshed our memories. Some of my - oh how should I word this - more experienced colleagues, who have been in the business a little longer than I have, know other versions of shorthand but we are going to be using Teeline. We have put aside a small bit of time each week to teach ourselves this useful tool which will come in handy for taking notes in interviews.

One of the main rules for shorthand is to remove the vowels from words and group the 'indicators' for each consonant together. The removal of letters to make smaller words is quite usual in text speak so hopefully, in this technological world we live in, it means that we won't find the new 'language' too difficult!

But if you do hear us saying 'ltl' instead of 'little' or 'wk' instead of 'week' then please do let us know!!

Posted at 3:41pm on 13^th January 2010