Why shorthand is difficult to read by Torrey Bates

Author:Torrey, Bates. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Shorthand
Publisher: New York, Fowler & Wells co
Published: 1890-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

practice be devoted to the same. If it be contemplated to use shorthand for a particular business or profession, training should be had in the technicalities of it.

Due regard should be given to the sounds of L and R, that is, when each is preceded or followed by a vowel sound; and to the establishment of a dual treatment because of this. A difference in direction of the strokes is made the voviel indicator, and a fertile source of legibility is thereby introduced.

Be careful to vary the outlines of words containing the same consonant elements. The words apology, pledge, pattern, patron, planet, plenty, rich, arch, chair, chary, demonstration, administration, come under this head.

Make a proper distinction between Per and Pre, remembering that one has coalescent and the other interrupted consonant sounds. The only exception to a logical rendering is the necessity for a down stroke before M [_]

Use only suggestive Word-signs, lest the memory be too severely taxed. In fact, the memory should not be so much exercised in shorthand writing as the reasoning faculties.

It is also wise to remember—That Phrases seldom assist speed, and if exaggerated they impair legibility, —That

the shortest outlines are by no means the Handy most expeditiously written, or the most legible. Hints. —That legibility is assisted by consistency

and analogy. It may seem the refinement of sarcasm to allude to these words in this connection, but shorthand that ignores them is badly off. —That

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