Explanation
OF THE ADVANTAGES AND APPARENT
DIFFICULTIES OF STENOTYPY.
A typewriter who can write 60 words a minute can, by using the logograms of Stenotypy, multiply this rate by two and a half (at least), speeding 150 words a minute, or saving of six out of ten hours' labor. Eighty words a minute (a speed which hundreds of typewriters attain), would, by Stenotypy, average 200 words per minute–a speed which no living reporter, who writes legibly, can ever reach by any other system. The Stenotyper writes in this rapid way every word, using vowels and consonants that in no other system could be used. This is not a gratuitous assumption, but an evidence which the preceding exercises visibly demonstrate. The word-signs are so suggestive and plain, that in less than five years the Author expects to see bibles, hymnals and prayer-books in the hands of the old folk," who have discarded their spectacles since this CAPITAL system came into use. There can be no possible confusion in regard to word-spacing. In fact the collocation of capital letters and other logograms, without space, is a beautiful feature of the art. We will explain:
"All the consonants of the English alphabet, when written as CAPITALS, are logograms or word-signs that require no space before or after. Four letters, G, J, Q, X, (being of less frequent use), are also used for affixes besides being word-signs. The capital letter B invariably stands for be, by, but; C stands for say, sea, see. It can never mean anything else. D is used to express day, die, do; F is the word-sign for of, if. off; G stands for God, go, age. It is used for age wherever these three letters occur, whether used in the beginning or end of a word, as G¢.(agent); nrG (marriage). The capital vowels, like capital consonants, have no space before or after them. I O U always stand for the words they phonetically express. OURMfe (Oh! You are my friend), is more legible than the sentence spelt out in full. In like manner, the figures are used for the words they phonetically express. The figure 2 stands for to, too, two; 4 is a word-sign, meaning for,
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