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Yash: Yet another short hand
- paularmstrong 3y agoI don't understand the fascination with these shorthands. Maybe helpful if you do a _lot_ of writing with a pen & paper, but if not, it would be more beneficial to practice more and get faster with touch typing or a chording keyboard.
- sublinear 3y agoThese things are not mutually exclusive.
- nrr 3y agoThe last time I had jury duty, I took a complete transcription of the trial proceedings with Gregg because of a general prohibition on computers in the courtroom. I also get a fair amount of utility out of it for math lectures because, frankly, while I'm pretty fluent with TeX, I can reach 220 words/min and transcribe equations much more easily if I just use pencil and paper.
- teeray 3y agoDo you have any recommendations on learning Gregg?
- nrr 3y agoNot really. My mother still had her materials from school (and could still read it), and I drilled the alphabet a lot. I think the biggest benefit is had by giving someone else your steno outlines and having them pinpoint where your strokes need work.
- arp242 3y agoAre you not given access to the stenographer's recordings as a jury member? You're basically doing the same job as them, right?
- sudobash1 3y agoThis strongly reminds me of a bit of humor attributed (perhaps erroneously) to Mark Twain. --- For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
- avgcorrection 3y agoI would take absolutely any phonetic spelling of English over the current spelling of English.
- aidenn0 3y agoIndeed; I'm a rhotic speaker but would even take a non-rhotic phonetic spelling over what we have today (things like cot/cart being spelled the same couldn't be more confusing that the current orthography)
- behnamoh 3y agoIt'd be interesting to see if these shorthands reduce the time it takes to _prompt_ LLMs. So instead of writing a long paragraph, you send the same content in a couple lines.
- 4726155 3y agoAlso worth checking out: Evans Basic English Code (uses English letters): https://archive.org/details/evansbasicenglis00evan https://archive.org/details/evansbasicenglis00evan Orthic (an alphabetic shorthand which replaces letters with more efficient characters): https://orthic.shorthand.fun/ https://orthic.shorthand.fun/
- xkcd-sucks 3y ago, in which the author re-invents the Welsh language.
- TacticalCoder 3y ago> sm cwhx szms atmw tis lrnx b usq krkws frm y ltn lfbt. sc nn-zngrfk szms hv ofn bn dskrbd s lfbtk, x przs mat klam yt sc szms rx tru cwhx. hvvr ys lfbtk szms dhv vlu f stdxs vo kx ddkt y irs nssri tmzr a stngrfk cwhx. lfbtk cthxs kx b rtn at y spds yretkli psbl vy smbl szms 200 ws pr mx r mr bt rkvr nl a frkc fytm t akvr a usfl spid f btvn 60 ws pr mx That's not the correct transcoding. The end is missing "and 100": I take it the end needs to be "60 x 100 ws pr mx".
- mkagenius 3y agoI couldn't help but notice that "opsahl" is upside-down reverse of "I yash o" .. probably a coincidence
- bagful 3y agoThis system is quite similar to Briefhand, an alphabetic shorthand letter-omission at its core and augmented with abbreviations for common words. With practice, the core rules alone are enough to write at speaking-pace. Over time you develop a personal set of abbreviations. My shorthand is a personal language. Probably anyone could decode my notes back to English with some effort, but my notes are more than text, they’re a mnemonic device: sometimes I only need but a glance to recall my mental formations at the time I was writing.
- thomasfromcdnjs 3y agoI love plain text websites, but, a simple maximum width would be nice.
- kazinator 3y ago> y Is used for th Cute! Plays on that whole "Ye olde" misunderstanding of the thorn characters as being "y".