| I learnt Pittman shorthand (and some Greg), and taught it to my kids as a "secret code". They use it in class to jot notes the teacher cannot read :) Both of these make the writing faster, but reading slower. I once spoke the world's champion shorthand writer - I've forgotten her name. She said the even she cannot read shorthand as fast as regular text. Which made sense before computers, when a stenographer needs to write very quickly, and English is written long. Bt, nowadays we need the opposite - a "shorthand" which, once you have learned, can be consumed quickly.
I know from experience that it takes much less time to read Hebrew than to read the same text in English (even though my mother tongue is English), since the vowels are assumed and abbreviations are extremely common - the actual text is shorter and quicker to read. I can scan a long article quickly, but I wish there was a way to convert that to a writing system that was quicker to intake. |
