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writing engineered to outrun your own tongue, then forgotten the moment typewriters learned to listen
speed recordOver 350 words per minute set in 1922
ancient rootsRomans used it; Cicero's slave invented a system
courtroom stapleStenographers still type phonetically on 22-key machines
lost languageMillions of old notes now nearly undecipherable
name originPitman and Gregg systems dominated for a century