Thursday, January 18, 2024

earliest shorthand


keep in mind that the activity of writing needs to be ritualistic but also economical. the rituals for the priesthood and kingly classes as they are presented for the use of the masses. They, however, used writing in its quick abbreviated form. As long as we have writing, we have abbreviated means, fast, economical.     
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The earliest known example of a shorthand writing system is the Acropolis stone (Akropolisstein), which was discovered in the Athenian Acropolis in 1884 and preserved in the British Museum (Brit. Mus. Add. Ms. 33270).

The marble slab shows a writing system primarily based on vowels, using certain modifications to indicate consonants. 

You are pretty dexterous at this Internet shorthand:

2G2BT = too good to be true
303 = mom
404 = I haven't a clue
*$ = starbucks (?)
99 = parent no longer watching
143 = I love you
303 = Mom
420 = Marijuana
ADIDAS = All day I dream of sex
AP = Apple pie

much more here.