Yash: Yet another short hand

I don't understand the fascination with these shorthands. Maybe helpful if you do a _lot_ of writing with a pen & paper, but if not, it would be more beneficial to practice more and get faster with touch typing or a chording keyboard.

Also worth checking out:

Evans Basic English Code (uses English letters):

https://archive.org/details/evansbasicenglis00evan

Orthic (an alphabetic shorthand which replaces letters with more efficient characters):

https://orthic.shorthand.fun/

This system is quite similar to Briefhand, an alphabetic shorthand letter-omission at its core and augmented with abbreviations for common words. With practice, the core rules alone are enough to write at speaking-pace.

Over time you develop a personal set of abbreviations. My shorthand is a personal language. Probably anyone could decode my notes back to English with some effort, but my notes are more than text, they’re a mnemonic device: sometimes I only need but a glance to recall my mental formations at the time I was writing.

, in which the author re-invents the Welsh language.

> y Is used for th

Cute! Plays on that whole "Ye olde" misunderstanding of the thorn characters as being "y".

> sm cwhx szms atmw tis lrnx b usq krkws frm y ltn lfbt. sc nn-zngrfk szms hv ofn bn dskrbd s lfbtk, x przs mat klam yt sc szms rx tru cwhx. hvvr ys lfbtk szms dhv vlu f stdxs vo kx ddkt y irs nssri tmzr a stngrfk cwhx. lfbtk cthxs kx b rtn at y spds yretkli psbl vy smbl szms 200 ws pr mx r mr bt rkvr nl a frkc fytm t akvr a usfl spid f btvn 60 ws pr mx

That's not the correct transcoding. The end is missing "and 100": I take it the end needs to be "60 x 100 ws pr mx".

It'd be interesting to see if these shorthands reduce the time it takes to _prompt_ LLMs. So instead of writing a long paragraph, you send the same content in a couple lines.

I love plain text websites, but, a simple maximum width would be nice.

I couldn't help but notice that "opsahl" is upside-down reverse of "I yash o" .. probably a coincidence

This strongly reminds me of a bit of humor attributed (perhaps erroneously) to Mark Twain.

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For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.

The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.