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   Hi, Ardith Hinton : Paul Quinn!   
   I read your message from 08.12.2019 00:46   
      
      
    PQ>> A good stenographer is worth a dozen typists.   
      
    AH> Thankyou. My mother was a stenographer. Like the "secretary" at a   
    AH> small school she had various other duties as well. But she told me   
    AH> that when she was taking "business courses" she chose to learn   
    AH> bookkeeping & shorthand, both of which were elective subjects,   
    AH> while the majority of people apparently didn't believe they would   
    AH> be successful or couldn't be bothered.   
      
   So did I. I was envy looking at shorthand writing, but I knew for myself that   
   I would never manage to learn it. ;-)   
      
    PQ>> In days of old, I had a 24 year long career and knew of only two   
    PQ>> stenographers at that workplace.   
      
    AH> As my father might have said, they're "as scarce as hens' teeth"...   
    AH> especially nowadays. When I mentioned to one of our daughter's   
    AH> young friends awhile ago that my mother was a stenographer she   
    AH> didn't understand what I was referring to although she herself has   
    AH> a university degree.   
      
   Probably, stenographers disappeared after the dictaphone had been invented.   
      
   (is "the" correct here?)   
      
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2019   
      
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