Days Elements Of Modern Shorthand For Self Instruction And For Use In Schools And Colleges

Author : Alfred Day
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282837891
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Day's Standard Shorthand written by Alfred Day and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Day's Standard Shorthand: A Phonetic and Joined Vowel System of Shorthand So Arranged That Any Number of Vowels Can Be Omitted at the Option of the Writer; Unequalled Speed With Legibility; For Self Instruction and for Use in Schools and Colleges At first it was claimed that one slope, one position, and light lines to represent the consonants was the best, was the View taken by the author, and upon this principle published his New American Shorthand, a very satisfactory work as proven by the-result in the classroom. About this time we began to test the correctness of the principle that a double length stroke to express a letter could be more easily and quickly written than by making that letter half its former length and shaded. It was quickly demonstrated that a shaded stroke was more quickly written and we dis carded that principal and distinguished the pairs of consonants by shad ed lines; this also gave opportunity for positional writing, thus greatly increasing legibil ity and speed by reason of an additional number of consonant diphthongs, as well as an increase in the number of word-signs readily distinguished by posi tion. To make this change necessitated the bringing out of a new text-book, and which we named Day's Modern Shorthand, a book which could have been properly designated as a revision cf the New Ameri can. No attempt was made to bring either of the books before the public, either by advertising or otherwise; being used exclusively in the author's own school. The result was gratifying beyond anything we had anticipated, and we were led to investigate still further along the line of additional abbreviating principles for the attainment of speed and legibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.