Category: Aufbauschrift

Groundwater, with brief forms

My work is a lot about groundwater. This example of Stiefo (Aufbauschrift) shows what Wikipedia says about it:

Introduction to the German Wikipedia page “Grundwasser”.

Here I used some brief forms. Grundschrift (basic level) already offers the possibilty to define your own abbreviations for common expressions, by writing a 1 step high consonant at 3 step size. I use the 3 step W for „Wasser“ (“water“). I create additional expressions by adding further letters, e. g. „Grundwasser“ (“groundwater”) by a g prefix, „Grundwasserleiter“ (“aquifer”) by a eit suffix:

3 step W for „Wasser“ (“water”); extensions for „Grundwasser“ (“groundwater”) and „Grundwasserleiter“ (“aquifer”). Characteristic elements are highlighted in orange.

“Standard Stiefo” makes almost no use of loops in clockwise direction (except the point-size loop for -lich). I use a half-step clockwise loop on the baseline for -ologie (-ology). Similarly, the raised loop (not used here) means -graphie (-graphy). The one-step clockwise loop abbreviates the various forms of „halten“ according to the stem vowel (hold, contain, stop, etc.).

Half- and full-step clockwise loops.

The lowered (i/ü/y position) letter h abbreviates „hier“ (“here”) in Aufbauschrift (advanced level). I also use it for „hin“ (“towards”) and for the prefix hydr(o)-. With this I can write „Hydrogeologie“ (“hydrogeology) quite concisely.

Brief form for hydro- and examples „Hydrogeologie“ (“hydrogeology”), „Hydraulik“ (“hydraulics”).

Teeline status

After a long hiatus I’m starting to practice Teeline again, because it surely would be useful for the English words I come across at work, which are clumsy to write in Stiefo.

I have not written Teeline for a very long time and I am not very good at it anyway.
I have not written Teeline for a very long time and I am not very good at it anyway. (Written in Teeline at a very beginner’s level.)

You can read this text in the German version of this post in Stiefo, for comparison.

Wild and crazy things

On the Shorthand Reddit, user journalizing asked me: “Will you ever do wild and crazy things such as writing English in Stiefo or writing German in Teeline?”

So I did. 😉

“Will you ever do wild and crazy things such as writing English in Stiefo or writing German in Teeline?” in Teeline (top) and Stiefo (bottom)
“Will you ever do wild and crazy things such as writing English in Stiefo or writing German in Teeline?” in Teeline (top) and Stiefo (bottom)

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