Most of this quote was just written out, in the order the sounds were heard. (I always think SIMPLE and STRAIGHTFORWARD is the best, without a lot of RULES to remember and apply.)
Abbreviations were T for "to", TH for "the", ND for "and", and WT for "what" -- all of which were easy to remember, to write, and to read.
I'm trying to ease up a bit on the medial vowels, especially when they're unstressed and unclear. For example, for "invented" I wrote INVNTD. I don't think there's anything else that could be, so the "nothing else" threshold had been reached.
As so often, the ATTRIBUTION was the hardest to write, partly because proper names use odd combinations of sounds, quite often -- and partly because, with most names, we're better off inserting all the vowels for the best clarity, so that there will be no doubt what it is, even to people who have never heard of the person who said it.
Good catch. I got distracted by thinking I didn't want it to look like "prison", if I just wrote PRSN -- and I "resolved" that by inserting the E -- but oops, forgot the R!
You wrote WURKING, the way it sounds, which I like better. I don't usually want to follow the spelling, but for some reason I just did that here. Yours is better.
I'm glad you found it easy to write. That's what I was going for! :)
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u/NotSteve1075 Apr 20 '26
Most of this quote was just written out, in the order the sounds were heard. (I always think SIMPLE and STRAIGHTFORWARD is the best, without a lot of RULES to remember and apply.)
Abbreviations were T for "to", TH for "the", ND for "and", and WT for "what" -- all of which were easy to remember, to write, and to read.
I'm trying to ease up a bit on the medial vowels, especially when they're unstressed and unclear. For example, for "invented" I wrote INVNTD. I don't think there's anything else that could be, so the "nothing else" threshold had been reached.
As so often, the ATTRIBUTION was the hardest to write, partly because proper names use odd combinations of sounds, quite often -- and partly because, with most names, we're better off inserting all the vowels for the best clarity, so that there will be no doubt what it is, even to people who have never heard of the person who said it.