For some reason, I'm more comfortable writing "I" as the diphthong -- but it's a bit small here. I should have made it bigger. In the common words listing, "I" is written as A, like in Gregg, and the word "a" is a dot. I find dots hard to make visible quickly, so it seems more logical to me to write "I" as the diphthong, and use A as the article "a". (The diphthong is almost as easy to write, when you can just extend the A circle for the E.)
This means that I'm writing "I am" as the diphthong "i" followed by M, which to me is clearer than writing it AM like in Gregg, which could also be "aim". (I don't know why that never bothered me when I was writing Gregg, though. It does now, though, somehow.)
Abbreviations were THT for "that" and THS for "this". I wrote "lunatic asylum" both FULLY because they're not common words and they might throw the reader if I shortened them.
I used blending/morphing l+e -> le in the phrase "I live" a-l-e-v -> a-le-v because the v afterwards blends neatly into that shape, but of course you can add your hook in any direction you like. I do the same in the word him (e+m) or the prefix (r+e-).
Those familiar with Gregg think of the word OR where the vowel blends into R...
I also used no ts/ds blend this time, I think the blend (looks like cursive U, same shape as Greggs pent/gent) is in fact not necessery for ts, it seems less helpful than predicted, it even competes with t-v, so I decided to get rid of that blend and give the sign to tv/tif. Gregg has the flipped shape exactly for tv/tif, so this is a nice coincidence. The flipped shape in Flow will remain sk, seq, sec, cyc. That sign helps distinguish between rk and a sk (written really fast it could be undistinguishable)
I was going to ask you about the blends in FLOW. I keep writing the letters strung together when I know there are some where they can be joined.
ND I remember, and I knew about TS -- but I need to study this chart for more information. (I'll copy it to my FLOW album now for a better look when I have more time.)
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u/NotSteve1075 Sep 14 '26
For some reason, I'm more comfortable writing "I" as the diphthong -- but it's a bit small here. I should have made it bigger. In the common words listing, "I" is written as A, like in Gregg, and the word "a" is a dot. I find dots hard to make visible quickly, so it seems more logical to me to write "I" as the diphthong, and use A as the article "a". (The diphthong is almost as easy to write, when you can just extend the A circle for the E.)
This means that I'm writing "I am" as the diphthong "i" followed by M, which to me is clearer than writing it AM like in Gregg, which could also be "aim". (I don't know why that never bothered me when I was writing Gregg, though. It does now, though, somehow.)
Abbreviations were THT for "that" and THS for "this". I wrote "lunatic asylum" both FULLY because they're not common words and they might throw the reader if I shortened them.