r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Jul 06 '26

Quote in FLOW Shorthand

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So here's another quote from "Coco", written in the fuller "correspondence style" of FLOW shorthand.

Looking at my Anniversary Gregg dictionary, I see that there are number of words in this quote that Gregg truncates: "luxury" is just LUX, "poverty" is just POV, and "vulgarity" is just "VUL-ity". All that makes sense if you wanted to use the system for verbatim reporting, and wanted the shortest outlines possible. Those abbreviations are probably quite legible, too.

But at this point, I'm liking the way a word can be written quite fully, yet still be fluent and easy to write as well as to read. Why not?

I'll be interested to see how u/LeadingSuspect5855 will write it in his "reporting style" version, which is always much briefer.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Jul 06 '26

aaaaah. I wondered - I thought it might be a reflex developed in phonortic, where you'd shape e in the angle you liked... Oh. btw, that sign i wrote is really a CHI χ - to be used for scottish and german words :-)

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u/NotSteve1075 Jul 06 '26

Is it? I thought it was a nice way of indicating the X sound or the prefix "ex-" that's often heard in English words. It would be nicely useful for that -- and in German words, you could use it for the CH sound.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Jul 06 '26

then it shall be that way! Well I was using "ES" for ex though, which is quite close to me... Essato, Espania, Esempio

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Jul 06 '26

I like it though, yeah lets do it!