I'm both laughing my ass off and feeling terrible for this guy at the same time
Horribly Hilarious
my favorite game to play is “is supernatural actually trending or did some major political/social event just occur”
I'm not sure I've ever actually posted original content here versus reblogging and I don't even know if anyone will see this or care. But if there are any Heroes fans out there, check out my AO3 profile. I just posted the first part of a new fic I'm working on. Haha, now I have to learn how to get a gif into this post. Woo hoo I think I did it.
Yatta!! New Heroes content from one of my fave Petlar writers!
Someone in facebook also posted this too
Omg
Mediglyphics
klubbhead
This shit’s infuriating
Oh, this is a type of shorthand!
There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.
As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.
Let’s break one of the words down:
Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?
Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.
Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.
So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.
Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!
Isn’t language amazing~?
oxrigknoll
my head is in my hands doctors don’t have awful writing they have a pecking codex
despite staff's recent changes, we're... winning??????
i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like
AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE
mufasamonsta
“THAT’S RIGHT TWAS I that set the house ablaze!!!”
Dying.
Every fucking time I know what’s at the bottom and every time I still lose my shit.
I’m so happy this post is back again asdlkfjsa
HAPPY TEN YEARS TO “TWAS I THAT SET THE HOUSE ABLAZE”
yes
Why's there a sliced salmon in the background?
