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Typing so fast the words forget they were ever spoken slowly.
means The skill of writing in shorthand symbols fast enough to capture speech word-for-word as it's spoken.
from Built from Greek 'stenos' (narrow, cramped) plus '-graphy' (writing) — literally 'narrow writing,' a nod to the compressed, squeezed-together symbols that let a hand keep pace with a tongue. The term rose in the 1800s alongside court reporting and dictation, when various shorthand systems competed to see whose cramped little marks could outrun speech itself.
- speed
- captures speech at 200+ words per minute
- the keys
- chords, not letters, spit out whole syllables
- origin
- greek for narrow writing, not shorthand for boring
- job security
- courts still cannot trust AI to swear in