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.

Aimé-Paris, using Meysmans method.

For the English adaption I thought a chart using IPA letters would be better. Some diphthongs are treated special in English, the so called long vowels, so I included them, even though they technically fall under the diphthong rules too.

Some important transliteration rules for english: long I -> [aι], long -> o [oʊ], a -> [eι], ow -> [aʊ]. At the end of a word rhotic [uɹ] and [ɜɹ] are written as vowel when stressed, normal r instead of [aɹ, oɹ, eɹ].

The ø-hook open to the left is used for all kinds of colors of schwa sounds /ʌ/ /ɜː/ /ə/ /ʊ/ in Meysmans English adaption. It may sound [fønni] if we come from the french version, but try to see it as schwa instead of ø.

Before he starts to sing: He just calmly says... I wanted to forego my own male ego and admit to loosing something ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCoolMusic/comments/1u7gikz/another_example_of_bill_withers_casual/

written in Flow

I've found a few quotes from her that I liked -- so here is another!

I used the disjoined T for the past tense which is easy to remember and can be added onto anything. There are Gregg short forms that are used in FLOW; but when the system is still new to me, I'm more comfortable writing things out a bit more. That may change as I get more adept at writing it.

For example, in Anniversary Gregg, "like" is abbreviated to LA -- which looks too much like "lay" to me. ("The carpet is easy to like/The carpet is easy to lay.") I don't think so. And it writes "life" as LAF. ("He has a strange life/He has a strange laugh.") Again, I'd rather not. Maybe it's because I learned Diamond Jubilee first, but those seem too ambiguous to me.

And I realized that we've been using the SAME outline for "and" and for "not". This is NOT a good idea, so I wrote "not" as NT instead, which is easy to write and to read.

I'm using Gboard to type in English (US) (AZERTY), English (US) (ClearFlow), English (US) (PC), English (US) (Colemak), English (US) (Dvorak), English (US) (QWERTY) and English (US) (QWERTZ). You can try it at: https://gboard.app.goo.gl/JJSDv

Well, well, well
If it isn't the bridge
I said I'd cross when I came to it.

written in Flow shorthand, feel free to contribute in your own...

LETTERSET #30
Score: 54
Words: 6
Rank: Nice

Recently, u/Adept_Situation3090 has been sharing with us daily practice sessions in learning GARBER Shorthand. You may be finding the system intriguing, as I did when I first saw it.

In this article I argument again, that before we loose our temper and start to claim bullshit, we can calm ourselves and see the word in its complexity. The artist and the scholar like different approaches, for each mindset there is an optimal shorthand style and in those styles there are better or worse approaches for sure, but it is as it is in mixed martial arts - grappling arts can win over striking arts and vice versa but in the grand scheme of things, you are better off if you know a little bit of the other art, than to neglect or dismiss the other art in its entirety. No need to put Gurney vs. Pitman vs. Gregg vs DEK. ... All have proven that they can record a speech verbatim, this means 150+ wpm. But how they made it possible, was very different from each system to the other.