Show magical power seen in shorthand writing the ancients appear to have regard ed their shorthand writers as possessed of a closely akin to magic Auson lus a poet ot of the fourth century addressing a shorthand arl ter says your hand of which the movement Is hardly perceptible iles flies over the waxy wasy surface and thoua my tongue runs over long phrases you fix my ideas on your tablets long before they tire are worded I 1 wish I 1 think as rapidly as you who has revealed to you what I 1 was meditating how many thefts does you your lhand make in my soul there Is no el evidence dence to show the speed of ancient t shorthand N writer riter was at all comparable with that ot of our own clay they wrote upon maxol tablets and no specimen of 0 their an appears to have been preserved for centuries there v was ns no shorthand in the world it was not revived until 1588 when dr timothy bright a yorkshire parson a bool book Charac characterize terie an arte ot of 1 and ai id secrete writing g by char aicher tills rills sy was simply a collection of arbitrary signs for a large number of common words there was no to provide a short shorthand band alphabet says the Mane manchester bester guardian |