r/FastWriting

So here's another quote from "Coco", written in the fuller "correspondence style" of FLOW shorthand.

Looking at my Anniversary Gregg dictionary, I see that there are number of words in this quote that Gregg truncates: "luxury" is just LUX, "poverty" is just POV, and "vulgarity" is just "VUL-ity". All that makes sense if you wanted to use the system for verbatim reporting, and wanted the shortest outlines possible. Those abbreviations are probably quite legible, too.

But at this point, I'm liking the way a word can be written quite fully, yet still be fluent and easy to write as well as to read. Why not?

I'll be interested to see how u/LeadingSuspect5855 will write it in his "reporting style" version, which is always much briefer.

A time will probably come when I will WANT to shorten up the writing -- but when I'm not aiming for the maximum SPEED but reliable LEGIBILITY, I'm liking the way I can write FLOW quite fully and still have smoothly written and simple-looking outlines. There was nothing strange or tricky here at all that might need explanation.

More complications to the system don't seem like they'd be either NECESSARY or a good idea. Like I always say: "Simple is better!"

This week's quote has no attribution, because it was just in a list of YouTube memes and aphorisms -- which I often find myself looking at, long after I should be in bed.

This linguistic expert explains why English vowels are all mushed together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Spex3j-_I

I'm trying to relate English phonetics to the Gregg alphabet (Aniversary), and I am a little mesmerized by the result. Does a relationship table with the IPA already exist somewhere?

Written in flow, because it's a joy :-) You can contrast it to https://www.reddit.com/r/greggshorthand/comments/1ufo2lo/wonderful_quote_on_the_writing_process_from_s%C3%B6nke/ (same text in Gregg)

I found this intriguing system by Thomas Stackhouse from 1775. I believe it's inspired by other English shorthand systems but deviates significantly with it's inline vowels and use of proportions.

https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-art-of-short-hand-o_stackhouse-thomas-mini_1775/page/n17/mode/2up