Re: writing system

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:41:05 +0100, Carsten Becker
<naranoieati@...> wrote:

>On Monday 03 January 2005 04:22, J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
>
> > I've always experience that it's difficult to make my
> > scripts look them as I wanted. I wanted to turn the
> > Stolze-Schrey stenography into something similar to the
> > Arabic or Mongolic script.
>
>If memory serves, you've shown that some time ago, didn't
>you?
You've caught me!

> > The Stolze-Schrey system is an ugly script (to me) wich
> > can be seen in the following document of the
> > Schweizerische Stenografenverband:
> > http://www.steno.ch/pdf/diktat01.pdf
>
>Heh, I've tried to self-teach it to me two years ago. My
>parents still have "teach-yourself steno"-like books from
>the courses in stenography they had to take at university.
>Indeed it looks some kind of ugly. I think it's not thought
>to be beautiful looking, it's only thought for being able
>to write as fast as possible. And as it seems, you can
>write incredibly fast with it.
I can't. It guess it takes a very long time of practice. If you want it to
be helpful, you additionally need to learn to read it fast.

The interesting thing about the German stenographies is their unique way of
representing vowels, as seen on the following page (this is another system,
the deutsche Einheitskurzschrift, but vowels are represented in the same way):
http://urkunde.stenografie.com/HTML/wu31a.htm

On the first line, you see the vowels with following /b/.

It's kind of a VC abugida (but this doesn't describe it very adequately),
which isn't found in any other writing system.


Another very interesting thing about the deutsche Einheitskurzschrift is
that it has a feature for representing 'rhoticized' consonants, that is,
consonants followed by /r/.

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust