Re: Alphabets with logographic symbols

On 2009-01-30 Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> > Stenography, perhaps? Court writing?
>
> Excellent! Thats more or less the level of "logograph
> sprinkling" I
> had in mind. Thanks. :) Omniglots page on "Shorthand"
> has some useful
> info.
>
>
Most stenography systems use very few actual
logograms or morphograms, but all use heavy
abbreviations and abbreviate the most common
morphemes and words to single letters or
modified letters.  I guess modified letters
that stand for morphemes or words may be called
logograms, but most modified letters are just
other letters or stand for phoneme clusters
rather than or in addition to standing for
words and morphemes.  E.g. in the system I
use (Melins Swedish shorthand in my own
adaptatation to English:

* <t> = <to>
* enlarged <t> = <d> = <-ed>, <did>
* stretched <d> = <nd> = <do> = <-and> = <-end>.
* tilted <d> = <nd> = <dont>
* ticked <d> = <ds> = <didnt>
* ticked <do> = <nds> = <does> = <ance>
* ticked <dont> = <nds> = <doesnt> = <ence>
* enlarged <d> = <st> = <stand>
* tilted <st> = <nst> = <stands>
* stretched <st> = <nst> = <must>
* ticked <st> = <stant>
* ticked <nst> = <stance>
* bent <st> = <stood>
* stretched <t> = <nt> = <ant> = <ought> = <-out>
* stretched <u> = <ou> = the word <out>
* <b><ought> = <bout> but <b><o><t> = <bought>
* tilted <t> = <nt> = <not> = <n't> = <-ent>

One does similarly with <m> = <them>to get <sm> =
= <small> and <com(e)> and <comp> and with
<k> = <can> to get <con> and <kt> = <can't>
and <cont> and <const(ruct)> and <g> = <get>
and <go> and <gone> (but <got> = <g><o> and
<gotten> = <g><o><n>!) and <ng> and <long>
and <lang(u)> = <ling(u)>, the last a
special adapted to my needs.
As you see one depends a lot on context to
disambiguate.  As a last resort a word or
morpheme can a be written out.
The only morpheme sign which I don't think
of as a modification of another sign is
<-ing> = <eng>.  Technically it can be seen
as a reduced tilted <m> but that analysis is
not very meaningful.  The meaning connection
between <-ing> and stretched <-ing> = <und(er)> =
= <ond> = <ound> isn't obvious either.

/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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