If you graduated before they implemented this or aren’t American, the system they started to use to teach kids how to read is called three cuing. They teach kids to identify unknown words by guessing based on clues in pictures with the sentences, what word would ‘make sense’, and whether the answer they came up with looks right based on the first letter.
As you may have noticed, none of that is reading a word. These are strategies that borderline illiterate people will use to try to understand words, and for decades it’s been the method used by many schools across the country.
So that person you’re arguing with online who keeps going off on bizarre rants barely related to anything you said might not be a troll, they might just be functionally illiterate due to having never been taught to read. Yaaay!
A quick look at Gregg shorthand and I’m not too sure how it would work. I mean it’s great shorthand but as an everyday writing system on things like signs and books it fails because a lot of the glyphs look the same.
Avatarian does a similar thing but with distinct glyphs and putting them into blocks creates something that can be considered symbols for easier reading, especially considering the most common words tend to be the shortest.
if you’ve ever used an abudiga, you were already shorthanding. Gregg was designed for over a 100 years to abudiga IndoEuropean phonetics. What “signs” do you see incapable of being abudigad? Entire libraries already came and went in Gregg.
I’ve read Bryan Konietzko’s conlang. I am literally a conlang.
I just prefer logograms over abjads.