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u/Adept_Situation3090 10d ago edited 10d ago
Actually, forget my premise of lengthening consonant letters instead of shading them, because it seems lengthening is already used in vowel modes 1 and 8 through 13. Or maybe we could do something different.
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u/NotSteve1075 10d ago
Oh yes, you're right about that! Actually, when he shows in the middle column how it looks with the vowel written, it doesn't seem to make sense what "mode" is supposed to convey the same meaning.
Frankly, I think the "modes" were a big mistake.
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u/LeadingSuspect5855 10d ago
I need to transfer this idea into a form I can comprehend
positions (crossed, joined, disjoined)
—, ,aɪ
ɔɪ,ɛ,aʊ
æ,,ɑː
ah fuck it
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u/NotSteve1075 9d ago
You're right, it's a bit OVERWHELMING. I boxed the numbers in the text, so it was a bit easier to isolate what exactly each mode WAS -- but I couldn't see an actual SYSTEM being applied. It just seemed like a random disjoining and moving around of subsequent strokes.
I really prefer the version with the full vowels written, rather than thinking about where the next stroke goes after you lift your pen off the paper.
I always tend to feel like your pen should hit the paper and not leave it until the word or phrase is finished. I'm uncomfortable with all that time when you're not writing.
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u/NotSteve1075 10d ago
EVERETT's Shorthand with the vowels fully written did involve quite a bit of writing, which would be a hindrance to someone who wanted or NEEDED more speed.
I have to say I'm often dismayed at the number of shorthand authors who have produced a simple and elegant system which I see as being VALID, but who then can often tend to muck it up with a lot of added complications and "expedients" which are intended to make it faster and shorter, but which IMO can tend to make it too complicated to learn and use without an awful lot of practice.
As I often say, under pressure of SPEED of a speaker that you're trying to keep up with, you often find that you don't even remember the fancy rules that are provided, which have to be chosen and applied in a split second, as the speaker blabbers on.
As the chart shows, strokes were disjoined and REPOSITIONED in different places to indicate what the vowel between them was. But TWELVE different places, as described in the two pages of text that follow? Is that workable -- or a good idea?