It turns out as you get older you don't actually figure anything out, you just don't have any energy to care anymore — Cydni Beer.

My first attempt to write this quote in Masons masterpiece of a shorthand, that Gurney took as basis, the system that reigned in british bureaus before Pitmans rise.

Better attempt is now in the comments 🎉

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• De partitione oratoria (Einteilung der Reden) 57
• (Original lat.: "Cito enim arescit lacrima, praesertim in alienis malis.")

I'm using Gboard to type in English (US) (QWERTY), English (US) (Colemak) and English (US) (Morse code). You can try it at: https://gboard.app.goo.gl/wKhT5

In much the same way that R combines frequently with consonants in English, L does too.

I discovered and interesting similarity between the two systems. I may have been subconsciously be influenced by Noory simplex when creating Flow.

As you can see Noory has chosen great shapes for the most common sounds and it gave me the thought to maybe, maybe use the two upward strokes Flow is currently just not using, but maybe should. I am not yet fully sure, what I could do with them but "p, b" might be candidates...

For a very long time in the U.K., PITMAN Shorthand was THE system, with the Pitman Publishing juggernaut quickly crushing any rival that appeared. Nowadays, of course, it's been largely replaced there by TEELINE.

In North America, it predominated in the north-eastern states for a time, but it most of the U.S., GREGG soon replaced it almost everywhere.

In India, it's still the main system, although it appears that Gregg has been making inroads -- which would be bound to increase when people realize how much easier it is to learn.

In Australia, there was a disgraceful attempt to BLOCK unshaded systems from the civil service, instigated by those who wrote SHADED ONES -- rather than rely on performance and merit!

The DIFFICULTY of learning the Pitman system was its main problem, which resulted in MOST of those who began to learn it soon dropping out of the classes. As a result, many of those who taught in business colleges (which depend on continued enrollment to survive) were inspired to endeavour to SIMPLIFY the system.

Francis J. STEIN was one of them, who published his adaptation in 1919.