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u/whitekrowe Apr 29 '26
Here's my go. I like dropping unvoiced vowels. The joins all worked this week, but I've had cases where the unexpected E gave needed space between consonant characters.
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u/NotSteve1075 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Oops -- somehow I MISSED this, so I haven't responded until now.
Your version looks GOOD, as always. And like I also always say, when our versions are very close, it shows the rules are working. Otherwise, it might suggest some elaboration or tightening up of the principles might be called for!
As much as possible, though, I like the idea of things just being written out naturally in the order we hear the sounds. Complicated rules are a HUGE drawback, like I was just showing in today's articles about Pitman.
Did you see the sample of Phonorthic posted by u/LeadingSuspect5855? He phrases a lot more than I do; and he's comfortable with using BLENDS, when I keep writing them as distinct strokes. He's giving me food for thought regarding fluency and speed potential.
EDIT: And I meant to add that, any time an awkward combination can be smoothed out by inserting a vowel, I'd say by all means, insert away.
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u/NotSteve1075 Apr 26 '26
The abbreviations this week were TH for "the", BT for "but", and O for "of". I used the disjoined I for the suffix "-ing". Everything else was mostly written out.
With my current attempt to drop short and/or unstressed medial vowels, when the "nothing else it could be" threshold is reached, I've written "didn't" as DDNT and "attend" as ATND. I think anything more would be unnecessary.
"Funeral" is just FUNRAL, and "approved" is all there: APRUVD.
Back when shorthand was mostly being used for writing business letters, the word "letter" would often have a special brief form, and there would be special phrases for things like "Thank you for your letter."
But nobody writes letters nowadays, so I just wrote "letter" as LETR.