H - Dot

[Deb]

Do you write the H-Dot before you write the outline, as instructed? Or do you go back and add it after you've written the outline? Or what?
Please give examples if you have different ways of doing this.

[Deb]

A few samples:

[Deb]

Practice if needed greggshorthand.proboards.com/thread/1204/dot

[gsmember]

I don't know why anyone would suggest doing the dot first. That'd be like crossing your T's and dotting your "i's" before writing words with T's and i's. JMHO

[69daveyjones]

Funny, I was just thinking about this the other day. I always add dots later. For example, "heading", I would write "e-d-ing-hdot"

[Deb]

I read some book on Internet Archive that had the question as a "test", so since I also place it last I thought I'd ask. I did find it here on the Pre-Anniversary Speed Studies book, that for the 'WH' is is placed first. Although I think I also place it after I've written the outline. I could see why they would suggest it, it takes time to go back to place the dot.


books.google.com/books?id=UNsXAAAAIAAJ&dq=gregg%20speed%20studies&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q=gregg%20speed%20studies&f=false

[69daveyjones]

Makes sense. I agree with them that if you learned it that way, it would be faster to place the dot first. As usual, though, if you learned it the other way, switching to the "faster" method would be difficult because the old way is so ingrained, the time lost to hesitation over when to place the hdot would more than outweigh the gain in speed. So I'll stick to the tried-and-true!

[Deb]

I found when I did this exercise, I put the H-dot first for the word "happen".

greggshorthand.proboards.com/post/4958/thread

[lvw]

I place the h dot first except when it occurs in the middle of an outline, in which case I write it after finishing the outline (e.g."perhaps", "unhappy"). I don't view writing it first as like dotting an i before writing it; h is a separate letter, not just part of a letter like the dot on an i.

[Deb]

Mar 30, 2016 15:57:51 GMT -5 lvw said:

I place the h dot first except when it occurs in the middle of an outline, in which case I write it after finishing the outline (e.g."perhaps", "unhappy"). I don't view writing it first as like dotting an i before writing it; h is a separate letter, not just part of a letter like the dot on an i.

That sounds right. Putting it first if you hear it first. Since we write mostly by sound, it makes sense.