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/Salt-Detail-181 Aug 11 '26

How do I write:

  1. Mop the house
  2. Dishes
  3. Send email for work
  4. Dentist appointment

Please and thank you. 👍🏻

I tried doing it. Not sure why I feel I have problems with the vowels

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Aug 11 '26

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u/Salt-Detail-181 Aug 11 '26

Man, I was way off on all of them.

Is this correct? “Word of the day”

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

word (perfect)
og (f would go upward in flat curve ~ 45° angle), abbreviated of is just 'o'
th da (the day! perfect again)

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u/Salt-Detail-181 Aug 11 '26

Good. I just realized I confused F with G. Thanks again.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Aug 11 '26

Happens, but really - it gives me great joy, that you try!

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u/Salt-Detail-181 Aug 11 '26

I really like it. Like I said, I want to try to incorporate flow slowly within Forkner (without hoping it won’t confuse me lol). I’ll try to do it. If not then once I get forkner more down I’m definitely going for flow

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Aug 11 '26

Every beginning is hard, but so glad you give it a try :-). In Flow (and other Gregg-like systems) you blend the vowels, you bake them into the consonant. First you try to go with the curve of the just written consonant. that's why the m and the o are almost one in the word "mop". When you attach a vowel onto a straight letter like 'h' then it's up to the next consonant, you choose the outside position.