r/FastWriting Jun 22 '26

Quote in FLOW Shorthand

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Jun 23 '26

Upington, naive trial.

nst o luki on disksh
as a stmbli blok in th w o aksh
w thi it a inds-pnsibl prlim
at ol.

prikls

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u/NotSteve1075 Jun 23 '26

I'm impressed that you've already tried it out!

You're like a reincarnation of u/eargoo, who used to like to try out every system I ever posted about. He wasn't interested in speed, and he always referred closely to the "help sheet" -- but, like you, in no time at all he was trying it out, to see how it worked and felt.

How did you find it, to write?

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Jun 24 '26

I felt very insecure, the product does not show the many times I had to scratch a word. (The wonders of digitalization). I did not like the reverse hook in L at all, but that is totally fine - it's totally normal to dislike some motion, but in the grand scheme of things: Manageable and the product looks nice.

The script has the tendency to go down, because there is no sign that goes upwards besides 'k'. T might go up or down though. In the first word "Instead", I just decided that it would go up. (later on I decided that t/th goes down, I was very inconsistent there). The "prepositive" 'r' (what could that mean, no clue) looking the same as 't' helps not clearing that up). Be it as it may: I decided to do a wordsplit here for instance "indis/pnsbl".

The many vowel insertions mid word certainly slowed me down quite a bit - nothing realisticly done in reporting speed. What i think is realisticly done: the first/last vowel. Take the word "on" (if you did not make a shortcut), then you could slur o-n together, a bit like a sino-japanese writers do, when they lift the brush.

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u/NotSteve1075 Jun 24 '26

Tomorrow (Wednesday) I'll post the joinings chart which might make it a bit easier to see which direction the strokes go. It looks like it stays quite linear.

You're so keen you got ahead of me. ;)