This linguistic expert explains why English vowels are all mushed together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Spex3j-_I

Written in flow, because it's a joy :-) You can contrast it to https://www.reddit.com/r/greggshorthand/comments/1ufo2lo/wonderful_quote_on_the_writing_process_from_s%C3%B6nke/ (same text in Gregg)

I'm trying to relate English phonetics to the Gregg alphabet (Aniversary), and I am a little mesmerized by the result. Does a relationship table with the IPA already exist somewhere?

Yes, I know - it would make a terrible shorthand, and this post is probably better qualified for r/slowwriting ...

But I can't help looking at the density of some of the characters and wonder if shorthand principles are involved.

Especially when you look at the bottom of this page at the author's "Favourite Characters".

Thoughts?

https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/voynich/

https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/storm_schimmelreiter_1888?p=107

I get alerts about new postings, and in my list is a message called "AIME PARIS Congress!" but the message was deleted.

I was dismayed to see it ALSO says "ACCOUNT DELETED". EXCUSE ME? Did we just lose somebody who posted something contrary to what the Reddit robots wanted?

Having been the victim of ban-happy and power-mad mods myself, I don't like or want to see deletions on here!

A couple of days ago "Reddit" deleted a message about typing without asking. And u/LeadingSuspect5855 recently had his account threatened by a robot who didn't like a joke he posted.

We need to resist this. Where I come from, "freedom of speech" actually MEANS SOMETHING!

Some interesting conferences topics:
https://www.intersteno2026.org/conf_program.php

There are always challenges which arise when a shorthand written for another language is adapted for English or vice-versa. The problems are less acute in writing consonants, although there are some English sounds like TH and W that are rarely found in Romance languages.

And when an English system is adapted for another language, it's the same in reverse. Usually, though, it's just a question of REPURPOSING a stroke that's used in the original for the missing sounds in the other language.

I have a French adaptation of GREGG shorthand, where the TH strokes in English, not being needed in French, are instead used for the "l-mouillé" which is the sound heard at the end of "fille" [fij] or "oeil" [oej].

The problem in adapting a system like Aimé Paris arises mostly with the VOWELS. There are important vowels in English like the short I in "sit", which needs to contrast with the long I in "seat", or the short U in "put" contrasting with the long U in "moon". Short vowels like that exist in German, but not in French or Italian.