Dance Shorthand

_Dance has a very dense form to encode, it does not just string characters together, it uses rules, that act as inherent abbreviation tool, so you don't have to remember them, but rather use the different ways to imply meaning.
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Implicit vowel in the first syllable
Dance shorthand needs a line to write over,on or through if you want the full power of the script. Depending on the position you know what vowel will be in the first syllable. over means [a,eι,αι] (quasi IPA notation in brackets), on the line [e,i], through the line [o,u].

Implicit consonants
Dance can elongate or stretch characters to the right (without change in height of the character) to imply n/m (character * 2) or to imply (t/d/th) which is a doubledouble stretch. So all the orange letters shown above can be stretched 1:2:4. The letter th is the only character that can is stretched in y-axis.

Example:
If I want to write

• man I place the stretched m letter above the ground, so the letter will hover above the line, the same letter placed on the line would mean men
• then I place a elongeted th stroke on the line like so: '|'

vowels/diphthongs
In dance you write only significant vowel-letters (certainly no lacy vowels), meaning those vowels who give the word its character:

• Always write the starting vowel
• write the second vowel of a diphthong only. Since many english diphthongs are composed by a,e,o and i,u you will write the latter mostly mid-word. Long vowels are diphthongs too! So you can easely distinguish cut from cute.

Example
Write k 4 times stretched -> means kt, put that through line and you have written cut it in one stroke.
String k and u(4*longer) together and you wrote cute, when the k went through the line.