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Re:A lesson in the lost technology of shorthand (2014) by mcguire on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:11PM (#11734278)
It does lead to collisions, context is usually enough to disambiguate, or there are many specialized abbreviations. I never played with it long enough to get the details, though.
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Re:A lesson in the lost technology of shorthand (2014) by linhchi on Friday May 20, 2016 @01:08AM (#11735656)
So it's like chinese. One word can have several meaning depending on context. And they seem to be able to figure it out.
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