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Charles Butler Date: Tue Feb 1, 2000 11:14 am Subject: Re: Shorthand | |
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> Wow, Charles! Really..you too? Even without all the palm facing, you > can read your old notes? This is very encourging and really > wonderful... > > Val ;-) Context is everything in a writing system. u cn rd ths u cn rd spdrtng The above sentence is a reduced form of English speedwriting. It requires a knowledge of English to understand as it has left out most of the vowels, but it is readable if you know English. Same thing with shorthand, I use it to write notes to myself when I'm trying to remember a signed song, as it's a whole lot faster than full sign writing for my own notes. And transposing it to my own hands is really fairly easy. It may not be 100% accurate, but for a living language that I already know, writing things I already know, it's pretty good. |
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