If you're in school and not allowed gadgetry and you need to write a lot, for years, often based on someone talking, why don't they teach shorthand?
It's phonetic - each part of a shape represents a sound and they are chained together, and they are designed to flow neatly when written unlike the awkward joining of ordinary characters. There are shortcuts for common patterns like endings ('ing', 'shun'). It's positional (high/mid/low per each line). Vowel sounds are dropped where not necessary, and where present they are the dots and dashes - positional (left/mid/right). It can make a distinction between light and dark pencil strokes to indicate voiced and unvoiced sounds.
In short, there are fewer marks to put on paper and the marks are simpler and more fluid to write.
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If you're in school and not allowed gadgetry and you need to write a lot, for years, often based on someone talking, why don't they teach shorthand?
It's phonetic - each part of a shape represents a sound and they are chained together, and they are designed to flow neatly when written unlike the awkward joining of ordinary characters. There are shortcuts for common patterns like endings ('ing', 'shun'). It's positional (high/mid/low per each line). Vowel sounds are dropped where not necessary, and where present they are the dots and dashes - positional (left/mid/right). It can make a distinction between light and dark pencil strokes to indicate voiced and unvoiced sounds.
In short, there are fewer marks to put on paper and the marks are simpler and more fluid to write.