Re: notelangs

Emaelivpaer Nokta Kanto:
>I'm curious, what tricks do you use in your private writing?
Senior year of high school, I started making up my own shorthand after two
unsuccessful boughts with Gregg Shorthand.  Here's part of what I use:


B (beta) - "to be" and all its conjugations
D - "to do" and conjugations
v (cursive) - "to have" and conjugations

M (same curl as [N]) - "-ment"
l (cursive) - "-al"; adjective-marker
c - "-ic"; another adjective-marker
N (X-SAMPA [N] shape) - "-tion" and variants; noun-marker
t (crosssbar ligatured to top) - "-ty"; another noun-marker

([T] symbol from a conscript) - [T] and "the"
(X-SAMPA [N] with crossbar) - "-ing"
(dot at end of word) - plural
(dot between words) - "a" or "an"
(chemistry equilibrium symbol, top arrow only) - "to" for both prep and
infinitives
(square root over X) - "very X" (yeah, I know, if you took the square root
of X, you're left something less than X, but it made sense in my mind at
the time so whatcha gonna do <grin>)

plus various other pictographic stylized symbols for specific subjects


One of my favorite notelang moments was when I wrote down "[T]-symbol
[N]-with-crossbar dot-at-end-of-words" without thinking about it, and then
realizing that I'd written "things" by subconsciouly following my own
production rules.  :)


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