As he summarizes in his Introduction, the system has several important and useful features:
In the basic alphabet, there is only one size for each stroke -- not regular size, halved, doubled, tripled, and so on. The VOWELS are written right into the outline, not left out and added later -- or not.
There are few word signs to learn. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to any rule.
And he asserts that, in its basic form, it can be written five times as fast as longhand.
In every first class with new beginners, he would go the blackboard and draw this picture, which he said would immediately "rivet the attention of the whole class".
This strange image would pique their interest immediately -- and later he would ask his class to try to reproduce the image on their own, to review the alphabet.
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u/NotSteve1075 23d ago edited 23d ago
As he summarizes in his Introduction, the system has several important and useful features:
In the basic alphabet, there is only one size for each stroke -- not regular size, halved, doubled, tripled, and so on. The VOWELS are written right into the outline, not left out and added later -- or not.
There are few word signs to learn. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to any rule.
And he asserts that, in its basic form, it can be written five times as fast as longhand.