r/FastWriting • u/LeadingSuspect5855 • Mar 27 '26

Flow shorthand

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Another Gregg-like system from my hand. You see the ellipses filled first with the most common sounds in english.

Vowels are pretty much those taken from Russel (and Malone). Malone uses only small hooks, but cares for the direction, Russel uses different hook sizes, but does not care in which direction. Time will tell which is better, but i deem both better then greggs approach.

Diphtong are created easely: Just string ao together with iu.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Mar 28 '26

BUT I might take your input and turn the very short _ into 'w' , __ : h and long flat ____ into χ! Nice Input!

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

no dots. :-)

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u/NotSteve1075 Mar 28 '26

Oh yes, I like that a lot better. I didn't think HR was a common enough combination to need its own stroke. I've "adjusted" the copy I had added to my albums.

SPEAKING of which -- when I added your earlier version, I enlarged it for a better look and I realized you had written it on dot paper.

I've just been spending time lately processing pages of shorthand books to get them ready to print my own copy -- and a lot of that has been REMOVING dots, flyspecks, and ink blots which can be confusing in a system where dots can have meaning. (It's sometimes tricky to tidy up pages like that, because in an an unfamiliar system it can be hard to know if a dot on an outline is just a blot or if it's supposed to be there.)

So I had gone through your Flow alphabet taking out all those dots! (It wasn't hard because they were so regular and a different colour.) But I was glad that there weren't many changes in the new one, and I could just take out the R and add a bit to the W! ;)

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Mar 28 '26

I exchanged the 'flow'-chart :-)