Keyword: shorthand symbols

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The letters that you are reading from the books, newspapers and any other reading materials are well adapted to the eye, but they are so ill adapted to the hand to be written. Alternative handwriting systems offer a 00! or let"s say better improvement in handwriting ease and speed. #f you could able to spend the rest of your life taking notes, keeping a $ournal or maybe a diary while writing two or three times faster, then, $ee%, why not& 'earning an alternative way of writing can not only be fun and cool, but can be practical as well. (horthand systems is famous nowadays, this system uses shorthand symbols of course. )hat are these shorthand symbols& These symbols are words that were being simplified which represent phonemes, words and phrases. The symbols use several strokes per letter and often several letters per sound. These symbols are being written using a phonetic alphabet * one sound, one symbol. (ince multiple letters are often used to indicate a single sound, the average +nglish word has more letters than sounds. The symbols may be single stroke lines, loops and hooks. The strokes may represent a letter and this letter represents a sound. These shorthand symbols are easy to use and of course it is practical. These symbols, reduced letters to a single stroke and which could also be used to represent common words, suffi,es and prefi,es. The main purpose of this system was to make writing more compact and faster. -any form of shorthand e,ist. These symbols can allow someone to write as .uickly as people speak. #t is indeed a helpful tool in order for you to save time and minimi%e effort. (horthand system and symbols were used more widely in the past, before the invention of recording and dictation machine. And now, this system and these symbols were considered a vital tool of secretarial training as well as being helpful to the $ournalists. The shorthand symbols e,ist in many forms and ways. They have various systems that are being used nowadays, which includes/ the 0itman shorthand, developed by (ir #saac 0itman, 1regg (horthand by 2ohn 3obert 1regg, Teeline (horthand, Alphabetic shorthand, and 4andywrite. These are $ust some of the few forms and ways of writing using shorthand signs. (horthand symbols could be a great help for writing purposes. Although there are various tricks and rules using these symbols, all of us have the capabilities to know how to do it if we are $ust willing to learn and give time to it. 'earning to write using these symbols could be fun and cool, as you will learn some new tricks in writing.