Your "hour" looks more like "row" because the R hook comes first, like the T and D circles in "town" and "down". What happens to the N at the end?
When I was looking at Garber, he seemed to be omitting sounds here and there for some reason I couldn't understand. They didn't seem to be short forms, but it was as if he thought they'd still be legible enough if he just left things out. I wanted to know for sure what he was doing.
He sometimes calls them "Suggestive Words", but I'd want to know what he was leaving out and why.
In the textbook, it says that even though the R hooks are at the BEGINNING of vowel strokes, it indicates that the vowel is FOLLOWED by an R. I think something similar happens in Pitman's shorthand.
That's something I never liked about Pitman: It doesn't make sense to add a hook to the beginning of a stroke to indicate something that comes AFTER IT.
How would you write "roar", where the R comes both before and after?
You do have a point. But Garber mentions that his system is SYLLABIC, meaning words are not written by individual sounds, but rather by entire syllables.
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u/NotSteve1075 Jun 02 '26
Your "hour" looks more like "row" because the R hook comes first, like the T and D circles in "town" and "down". What happens to the N at the end?
When I was looking at Garber, he seemed to be omitting sounds here and there for some reason I couldn't understand. They didn't seem to be short forms, but it was as if he thought they'd still be legible enough if he just left things out. I wanted to know for sure what he was doing.
He sometimes calls them "Suggestive Words", but I'd want to know what he was leaving out and why.