FT on the rise and decline of #shorthand - and #Intersteno's modern #speedwriting competitions where pen shorthand-writer are few and "most were fleet-fingered word-processors, swift Stenotype-jockeys and captioners on their piano-like chord-writing machines, or even young texters". (Recent winning speed: 415 syllables per minute!) https://www.ft.com/content/b65a40f4-ad61-4b9d-acc4-6d9fdb5a14f2
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