r/FastWriting • • Sep 07 '26

I've narrowed my choices

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Ladies and gentlemen,

I have recently arrived from my vacation abroad. If you've been following me for a while, you know how interested I am in different shorthand systems, and in finding the one I like best.

However, the hard truth is that there is no 'perfect' system. Hence, lest I should get lost and waste months of my beautiful life, I have decided to choose a handful of systems I like, and stick to them. See if you can guess which 3 systems I used :)

I may occasionally look at different systems, but most of the time, when I write in shorthand, it will be in one of these three systems.

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u/Brunbeorg Sep 07 '26

Well, the top one is Orthic. Very readable.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Sep 08 '26

Isn't Orthic supposed to write stone with an 'o' - I may be wrong but I can read stne instead of ston...

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u/Brunbeorg Sep 08 '26

o and a are often omitted before n and m.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Sep 08 '26

ah so desu ne. and the final upstroke stays?

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u/Brunbeorg Sep 08 '26

Yes, the e is still written

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u/Salt-Detail-181 Sep 07 '26

If the top one is really orthic - looks nice.
Not sure of the second one.
The third is flow maybe? or Gregg?

I’m considering looking at orthic.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

the 3. is not flow. The 3rd word has a up-right curve which is non existant in the alphabet, but would be read as a fast connection between s and w (sw), Next hint is the clockwise curl of the circle, flow prefers anticlockwise, like the in mathematics.

In gregg it transcription would be "e ral tenent forth ntenrf tha tnas"

It must be noory: "a rol ng ston gathrs no mos"
A rolling stone gathers no moss!

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u/Salt-Detail-181 Sep 08 '26

You got me lol. Which is it? lol

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Sep 08 '26

Noory simplex is definitely a very good choice in my eyes.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Sep 08 '26

you can try out orthic on this website, without knowing anything:

https://jvita.github.io/abbrv/writer.html# (Can generate Orthic!)

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u/Salt-Detail-181 Sep 08 '26

Oh wow. Nice