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Easy Shorthand

• Ignore any of the following rules when their application causes confusion or disturbance to the pleasure of your writing.
• Omit internal vowels. ("Gentlemen in England now abed" -> "Gntlmn in Englnd nw abd")
• Replace doubled consonants with single ones. ("all parallel addition happens to follow patterns" -> "al prll adtn hpns to flw ptrns")
• Omit final "e".
• Replace "the" with "\" (a backslash, slanting downhill, falling in the same general shape as the end of the word "the" itself).
• Replace "and" with "/" (a slash, rising the way the end of the word "and" itself does).
• Write the "-ing" ending as "g".
• Use numerals (1, 2, ...) in place of number words ("one", "two", ...).

- from http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?HandOfOnesOwn

Others (from Notescript by Laurence F. Hawkins):

• use a dot above the line for "a"
• use an "n" with a dot above it for "in"
  • a dot preceeding a word indicates an initial "i"
• a dot at the end indicates an abbreviation
• circle signs or numbers that was spelled out in the original
• underline parts of a word that requires special attention (when copying exact quotations)