Xah Shorthand System

Massive new era keyboard based shorthand system in the works.

• We have the pitman shorthand system. Which is based on phonetics, and for hand writing.
• Then we have the shavian alphabet, based on it.
• We have steno, which is based on part phonetics, chording hardware, and part ad hoc.

• Am slowly designing a keyboard based shorthand system.
• Single key press one at a time, not chord, and for computer keyboard.

• similar to, the statistics based input system word completion on phone.

• Look at it this way: in typing study, the idiotic nerds has bigrams.
• But they never thought of word-grams.
• These, are basically what the machine learning statistics based system on phone is.
• Which, saves typing by phrase and sentences, that's a magnitude more than a phonetic system (such as steno).

• The first easy step, in this xah system, is for each word in dict, shorten them to just consanant letters. And, also, rectify them, so k instead c.
• For example, word becoms w. Time and times both became t. Communication becomes kmnks.
• Now, u have maybe 1 thousand such abbrev words. Many will stand for multiple words.
• Now, look at frequency of those words, pick the most frequently used on for that abbrev.
• Now, this system, as it is, would be already very significant.

• After than, u refine it, by, look at the top 300 most used english words. For each that doesn't already have a abbrev, add one, by devising some scheme so they r diff from the phonetic abbrev.
• Also, is to look at most frequently used phrases, of 2 to 5 words. Similar, device a scheme to abbrev them so they r differentiated from the phonetic abbrev.