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I invented the written equivalent of a Tongue Twister and named it a pen buckler, pencil prickler or feather furler. I hope one of the term sticks...

Feel free to contribute some of your own in the shorthand of your choice!

The Leith police dismisseth us.
On a lacy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.
A wicket kricket critique
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
pad kid poured curd pulled cod
Are you copper-bottoming 'em my man?
No, I am aluminiuming 'em, Mum.

Technically it's not shorthand, but it proves that evolution is a real thing! Who would have thought!

Aesthetic Medicine & Aesthetic Surgery Congress | AIME Congress

In this article I argument again, that before we loose our temper and start to claim bullshit, we can calm ourselves and see the word in its complexity. The artist and the scholar like different approaches, for each mindset there is an optimal shorthand style and in those styles there are better or worse approaches for sure, but it is as it is in mixed martial arts - grappling arts can win over striking arts and vice versa but in the grand scheme of things, you are better off if you know a little bit of the other art, than to neglect or dismiss the other art in its entirety. No need to put Gurney vs. Pitman vs. Gregg vs DEK. ... All have proven that they can record a speech verbatim, this means 150+ wpm. But how they made it possible, was very different from each system to the other.

Lyrics in Flow. Listen to Bob Dylan: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSoundStage/comments/1tnobwi/bob_dylan_masters_of_war_1963/ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7TRiyG6mfY

I needed to get creative, or I risk loosing my account here. So if someone likes making phrases with the most frequent words including making dark humor, without ever risking to loose membership in reddit, just follow the link.

To post in nostr you need to install one of the signer tools, to make the login secure in nostr: you don't want to use the private key over the net as password (the old messy way), so those signer tools sign your messages, before sharing using the nostr protocol. Don't bother trying to generate your own pub/sec-keypair, those tools have that integrated.

What nostr signer then?

Amber is top on android (use f-droid appstore). On PC I had Keys.Band working (a extension for the browser) and right now the Plebeian Signer both excellent, stay away from nos2x (from the designer of nostr): it works too, but it is klonky. On IOS use nostash. I cannot recommend Aegis, my first choice (I wanted to use it with substr, never got it working).

Can you pls post your stuff on s/nostr too, or even first and just links here. There is the possibilty to have interest centered on nostr, you clearly enjoy posting here, which is absolutely important, to catch interested yet-to-be-nostr-users.

But plz don't put your gems only here and not only as a message that gets lost on a twitter like nostr-app, when you can do it on nostr too: theme centered communication. I'd really enjoy not to have to look here on reddit, to know what's going on on nostr :-)

Status quo

Pitman is a positional system, that means as soon as you put a letter on your lined paper you write a syllable. You can put your consonant on the line and it will represent consonant + either e|eɪ|ʌ|ō. To make clear which one of the choices you really mean, pitman uses diacritica placed before or after the literal, thus also indicating reverse syllable or simple syllable.

Imagine you ignore diacritica for a moment, then pitman has 3 levels representing:

[æ ɒ ɑː ɔː aɪ ɔɪ
ɛ ʌ eɪ əʊ/oʊ
ɪ ʊ iː uː ju aʊ]

or a bit simplified and ordered

a ī o oy
e eɪ ʌ ō
i u ū aʊ

So interestingly Pitman would put "bet" and "bate" on the same level! Something that I believed only us german speaking people would put together. But Pitman was aware of the phonographic familiarity in that regard.

You may not be aware consciously, but the english vowels are those which i call strong [a o], weak [e ʌ] (including all kinds of colored schwa sounds not only ʌ) and the lifting [i u]. And if you combine the strong and weak with the lifting vowels you get practically all diphthongs used in english including those you anglophone call long vowels.

Interestingly Pitman was aware of that it seems, at least he chose to match the levels:

strong
weak
lifting

Now Pitman has chosen to put diphthongs on the levels too per default, so

strong + [i]
weak + [i] | [o] + [u]
lifting + [u] | [a] + [u]

As you see the diphthongs use either i or u. So I could make Pitmans systems a bit easier by introducing just two diacritica, so I can make up all the diphtongs? Let's do this:

Introducing diacritica for lifting vowels

DOT • shall be the [i] dot. and DASH - represents [u]

That way my positional vowel system looks like this

strong + [i, u]
weak + [i, u]
lifting + [i, u]

Now we still have to decide whether the vowel comes before or after the consonant. Well for the diphthongs we just do what pitmaniacs always did, put the dot or dash in front of the literal. What about the others? We could use another diacriticum! rotate the dash, thick dot, or a tiny hook?

Introducing diacritica for the remaining vowels to represent preceding vowels

tiny hooks could be the first and second vowel in the respective level, but since you can rotate hooks we can also all of them ⊂⊃∩∪! Lets do this:

[a, o] -- ∩ ⊃
[e, ʌ] -- ⊂ ∪

Well that looks like a svastika, which is the sign for prosperity and luck in all countries with culture!

Testing on all 3 levels:

"bat": bt, "about": ∩b-t, "boat": b⊃t, " I'm ": •m, "our": -r
"bet, but, butt": bt, "bate": b•t
"bit": bt, "beat":b•t, "boot": b-t,"you'r": -r

What do you think? I think it's pretty neat! Let me know...