PREFACE.
THE AUTHOR
[1] does not by the title page mean to insinuate that Stenotypy will supersede Phonography in all its adaptations. On the contrary, he wishes to state that the system can be used only in connection with typewriting machines.
While the pen and pencil are more portable, it will be seen at once that Phonography is available in various departments where it would be inconvenient or impossible to use machines.
However, the Author makes bold to assert that wherever a typewriter is available, Stenotypy has decided advantages over all other shorthand systems. Whenever a typewriter shall be invented that can easily be carried in the pocket (we hope to see it soon in the market), indeed, phono and stenography will be universally discarded as obsolete and unworthy of a progressive age.
A few of the advantages of Stenotypy are noted on the next two pages.
- ↑ Lest anyone should consider this system constructed on a superficial basis, the Author begs to state that being thoroughly acquainted, for several years, with Pitman's, Munson's, Graham's, and Odell's systems of phono and stenography, ho has thoroughly investigated the difficulties and advantages of Stenotypy, and is pleased to state that if the few rules given in the following treatise are strictly observed, there will he no confusion of words or sentences, while the reading of the abbreviated words will be a pleasure rather than an onerous task.In cases where all the word signs of the alphabet are not attaches to any particular machine the operators must use the usual phonetic mode of spelling.
