The first image says, "Today, I met a friend at the coffee shop at 8 in the morning. We talked about our future goals and the things we want to accomplish this year."The second image says, "Later, we went to the bookstore because he wanted to buy a new journal. I found one I liked too, so we ended up spending more time than expected browsing through books and stationery."Gregg Shorthand is a symbolic writing system that uses curved strokes, lines, and loops to represent sounds (not individual letters) in spoken language. It’s phonetic, meaning you write what you hear—not how words are spelled.For example, the word “night” would be written based on the sounds /n/ and /t/, omitting silent letters like "gh" or "i."