Excerpt from Exact Phonography: A System With Connectible Stroke Vowel Signs<br><br>The first extract recognizes, by implication, the great importance of omissions, abbreviations, the. Possessing of the facility to cnoose w/cz'cn shall be o7nzttea', vowels or consonants; such choosing not possible except in a system that affords substantially equal facilities for the representing of both classes of sounds. It Is needless to say, to one who has made our language a subject Of study, that a vowel sound is often the most prominent and distinguishing sound that a word contains in which case the facile and prominent representing of it becomes especially important. In such instances, one whose system enabled him to express both classes of sounds with equal facility, would naturally write the Sign for the prominent vowel, eliding the less promi nent and non-essential consonant or consonants. As the reviewer says, there was no such facility in the old phonography. So entirely was this the case, and so entirely is it the case to-day, in all the old phonographic systems, that if one wished to represent the sound of a vowel alone, disconnectedly, as in the sentence, I do not pronounce this but e; nor this ct, but a', his easiest way would be, to write these vowels, with the proper accents over them, in longhand script he would have no single shorthand sign which, standing alone, would represent one of them; while the writer of Exact Pnonograpny would readily express any one of them as easily, as prominently, as unmistakably, as he or a user of the Old phonography could write B, N, R, Y, - by a single shorthand stroke.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.