This section is from the book "The Science And Art Of Phrase-Making", by David Wolfe Brown. Also available from Amazon: The science and art of phrase-making.
33. But "the young writer should not reject a phrase because he cannot at first make it with perfect ease and accuracy; for it may be a phrase quite desirable with reference both to speed and legibility." (Practical Shorthand.)
It may correspond with certain natural word-groups, so that the writer instinctively feels that the words should be written together, rather than separately, and the sense relation of the words may be so close that they will be more readily recognized together than apart.
 
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