Flow shorthand

Flow shorthand stands on the shoulders of giants.

Malone as well as Gregg adopted the the ellipses as defining forms, in an angle that allows nice cursive writing. Malone and Gregg chose a different approach to vocalisation though, in my oppinion the better solution over gregg who whose small circle for e/i.

In Flow you dont write hardly noticeble utterances of vowels, this process of choosing the right sign for the spoken word is called transliteration: bird -> brd. BUT beat -> bit. So the e-hook is primarily used for long ee. But the hook also serves for connections that 'flow' in the same direction, the fun word 'sis' would be written with the hook, 'sus' with an even longer hook. Btw. it doesn't matter which way the hook is facing - but i prefer the u-shape. One thing that helps is to hook onto straight letters, it's just very easy to distinguish for obvious reasons.

To be fast in writing (you can write as fast as someone else speaks) you need also abbreviations, a single letter representing prefixes or personal pronouns. For instance the letter 'a' (small circle) in conjunction with letter 'm' means the short phrase "I am" and if you append 'n', it's the negation "I am not". There is a system to the madness of course and this system will be presented in the next few articles!

For now I am happy to see, what you can achieve on your own with it. Have fun!