Fabulous article, Shadows. I enjoyed this. Very informative... and the comment section is interesting too! I use the ampersand in Leo threads...cos they limit the characters count to 240 so it's nifty to be able to reduce it by using &.

At Uni I learned a few shorthand bits for taking notes which I still use today... for common words like with and the - it certainly makes it much quicker to write when we assign symbols to words, concepts and ideas... I guess the Egyptians, Chinese and Japanese... to name but a few... were on something!
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