A couple years ago, I learned to read/write Quikscript, which was indirectly inspired by shorthand systems (George Bernard Shaw knew phoneticist Henry Sweet and

A couple years ago, I learned to read/write Quikscript, which was indirectly inspired by shorthand systems (George Bernard Shaw knew phoneticist Henry Sweet and Pitman shorthand, and endowed an effort at script reform in his will). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quikscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quikscript It's harder than you might think to read English in a different script; we have learned through great effort how to read and write the conventional orthography. Writing—and especially deciphering the writing—is laborious and slow without a lot, a lot, of practice. Plus, writing phonemically made my spelling worse ;)