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   Hi, Paul!  Recently you wrote in a message to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
    AK>  Maybe it is better to remove "position"?:   
    AK>  "...but, IMHO, also there is no ground to suggest that a   
    AK>  stenographer is as unique in a firm as its President."   
      
    PQ>  You're getting a little lost.  The statement is one of fact.   
    PQ>  In days long past there was a time of one-to-one direct   
    PQ>  professional relationships between a senior executive (say,   
    PQ>  president) and the organisation's (sole) stenographer.   
      
      
             Yes... I noticed that in the school system.  The senior "secretary"   
   took dictation when the principal wanted to send a letter, worked overtime to   
   attend & make notes at important meetings, and typed out the results.  People   
   who do this sort of work are often quite skilled at correcting other people's   
   errors in spelling & grammar too, including my own... [blush].   
      
      
      
    PQ>  A good stenographer is worth a dozen typists.   
      
      
             Thankyou.  My mother was a stenographer.  Like the "secretary" at a   
   small school she had various other duties as well.  But she told me that when   
   she was taking "business courses" she chose to learn bookkeeping & shorthand,   
   both of which were elective subjects, while the majority of people apparently   
   didn't believe they would be successful or couldn't be bothered.   
      
      
      
    PQ>  In days of old, I had a 24 year long career and knew of   
    PQ>  only two stenographers at that workplace.   
      
      
             As my father might have said, they're "as scarce as hens' teeth"...   
   especially nowadays.  When I mentioned to one of our daughter's young friends   
   awhile ago that my mother was a stenographer she didn't understand what I was   
   referring to although she herself has a university degree.  Stenographers may   
   have been done a disservice by the common tendency to lump them together with   
   anybody who can type, use a copying machine, and answer the phone.  Years ago   
   there were jokes about the "steno pool"... more likely a "typing pool" AFAIC.   
   And I agree that recording devices may have changed the picture as well.  ;-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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