Re: are we mature for a mnemonic human communication code

Heidi Graw wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1167954553.955462.273870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Heidi Graw wrote:
"gunananda" <gunananda@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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gunananda wrote:
The latin alphabet is the most used limited set of symbols used for
communication throughout the world and I see no reason for abandoning
that.
Why not simply use Pitman Shorthand symbols? Then there's no need to
quibble about the spellings of words. Spelling Bees can then be a thing of
the past. One can write as quickly as one speaks. It saves on writing
space.

http://pitmanshorthand.homestead.com/

When I learned Pitman Shorthand, I thought to myself, "Why are we still
using the Latin alphabet?" We should get rid of it! There is a far faster
and efficient way to write stuff down.

Peter wrote:
Shorthand instruction manuals advise you to transcribe your notes
within a day or two, because after that, you will be unable to
interpret them.

Not if you keep to the "standard." So, while secretaries tend to develop their own variations, that only they can read and nobody else, I'm suggesting one stick to the standard.

Peter was referring to secretaries reading their *own* shorthand. Whether conforming to the standard or not is beside the point.

The symbols I learned over 30 years ago, remain the same still to this day. Pitman gave the symbols. They didn't change and those symbols mean something.

Which has nothing to do with Peter's point about the difficulty of reading your own shorthand and the need to rely on fresh recollections to reconstructed what you'd written.
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