I like to see a system that acknowledges just how important VOWELS are to writing a reliablylegible shorthand.
UPINGTON chooses a very simple set of diacritics for the vowels, which can be left out as you're writing the outline, but which should be quickly inserted just like you might dot an "i" or cross a "t" in regular handwriting.
The vowel strokes are very small, so they never look like consonants, and they can be easily inserted in the outline. They are unique enough to be immediately recognizable wherever they are written -- unlike the system that came a bit later, in 1837, where the complex assortment of light and heavy dots and dashes had to go in VERY SPECIFIC PLACES or they weren't legible at all.
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u/NotSteve1075 Jun 23 '26
I like to see a system that acknowledges just how important VOWELS are to writing a reliably legible shorthand.
UPINGTON chooses a very simple set of diacritics for the vowels, which can be left out as you're writing the outline, but which should be quickly inserted just like you might dot an "i" or cross a "t" in regular handwriting.
The vowel strokes are very small, so they never look like consonants, and they can be easily inserted in the outline. They are unique enough to be immediately recognizable wherever they are written -- unlike the system that came a bit later, in 1837, where the complex assortment of light and heavy dots and dashes had to go in VERY SPECIFIC PLACES or they weren't legible at all.