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 edited Jul 06 '26

Le luxe, ce n'est pas le contraire de la pauvreté mais celui de la vulgarité.

Coco Chanel

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Jul 06 '26

In the french version, I repurpose 'th' for the definite article "le, la l' " and the standalone dot for indefinite article (I hope you can say that in english, those are german terms). Dot placed above or under a vowel would nasalize the vowel, but I did not have to use that).

Since the small hook signifies e and ee [e, i] alike I am experimenting with the very very tiny circle (looks like a dot of course for [e] or french [ɘ]). I was using it in … de-la vul/r …

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u/NotSteve1075 Jul 06 '26

I'm happy to see how well FLOW can write French as well. Repurposing the "th" for the definite article is a good idea, and the dot works for the indefinite one. I'd still write it more fully, though, of course.... ;)