This section is from the book "Haven's Complete Manual Of Practical Phonography", by Curtis Haven.
An efficient means of avoiding some very cumbrous written forms is that of abbreviating the phonographic outlines of a number of the prefixes and affixes of our language. And, as this method of syllable-abbreviation can be affected without the least sacrifice to legibility, it becomes a very important factor in rapid writing.
All works on phonography present this principle, but as most of the abbreviations recommended by their authors cannot be joined to the rest of the words of which they are a part, they therefore fail to give any extra speed in writing. The time saved by their abbreviation of form is lost by the time consumed in lifting the pen or pencil from the paper, in disjoining, it being a much slower method to write two disjoined characters than even a half dozen joined ones. The method taught herein, by being both abbreviated in form and easy of juncture gives extra speed from two sources, besides relieving writers of the pos sibility, common to those old methods, of mistaking the disjoined portions of a word for separate words.
There are, of course, many more prefixes and affixes in use in our language than presented in the lists herein explained, but those not found here are either of very infrequent occurrence, or are ones not in need of abbreviation, such as the affixes ly, ness, etc., whose ordinary phonographic outlines are sufficiently brief in themselves.
 
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