Home « Dutton World Speedwords «
Li OFFICIAL Speedwords Site
Tis-ci pagines es copyright, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2007 de Robert J. Petry, C.L. Information on these web pages are for personal use only, and may not be reproduced in any form whatsoever for commercial use of any kind.
Ordinary writing at Shorthand Speed por omni lingues
This, the only World Brief-Script in existence, breaks down all the present language barriers to free international correspondence between all countries. R. J. G. Dutton
Rap Lin Rie is the nickname I have given to Dutton World Speedwords.
Dutton World Speedwords was intended to be an international auxiliary [helper] language that could also be used as a universal shorthand system. This system enables any individual to write at least twice as fast as one writes in his or her native language. This is because the words are COMPRESSED to 50% or better! And, it turns out that it is the perfect email language/shorthand system for the 21st Century. Published in the 1940's, but development started in 1922, Reginald Dutton did not realize he was developing the best email language/shorthand method EVER, bar none, even before email and the web were ever conceived. Dutton was a man well ahead of his time! These pages are here to honor him and his dreams, and to help bring them to pass. We hope you enjoy this unique, wonderful, information. Again, these pages are dedicated to the honor of, and memory of Reginald John Garfield Dutton, 1886-1970, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts from 1918-1969.
His system is a boone to emailers of the 90's, and beyond. Just think, 50% compression without software! Rap Lin Rie, the nickname I have given it, means, in Speedwords,
"[Rap]Rapid [Lin]Language [Rie]Shorthand".
"For many years past I have held that it is much easier and more sensible to say 'I be, you be, it be, we be, they be', and that a few auxiliaries and prepositions get rid of such superstitions as tenses and a lot of unnecessary verbs and adjectives.
I do not know whether it was you or Ogden and his Orthological Institute that first attempted to make Pidgin scientific; but both Basic English and your Speedwords are moves in that direction. Not only is the Speedwords ideography scientifically ingenious, but it is very strong on the economic point, so stupidly neglected by all your predecessors. What I am interested in is the enormous quantity of unnecessary manual labour wasted every day in writing, typing,and printing. When we are at peace and The Times is in full blast, it often contains a million words a day. A saving of even ten per cent, would leave 100,000 fewer words to write and set up, to say nothing of a saving in paper." Faithfully, G. Bernard Shaw
"I have reviewed your 'Weekend Shorthand System'. It appears to be a simple and useable tool for anyone involved in education, from student to scholar. Keep up the good work and I wish you success with 'Rap Lin Rie'." Ellen Price, Ph.D., Univ. of AZ.
"I got the parcel sent by u with the 2 books on RLR. They're just great! Thanx a ton. They make for really attractively formatted products! It's very nice that the campaign to promote Rap Lin Rie is getting into full swing! I am sure the world needs it.:)" R. Srikanth, Research Scientist, India
"I have just read with much interest the proposals for an 'International Symbolic Script' which Mr. Dutton makes in the Journal of December 20[1935], and I hope he will send me a copy of the text-book in which he has elaborated a system -- VERY INGENIOUSLY, as one sees on examining the portion of it which I have before me." F.W.G. Foat, D.Lit. Fellow of the RSA [Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, March 13, 1936.]
"Because of its great word economy it could be easily equipped with the type of simplified alphabetic shorthand embodied in R. Dutton's INGENIOUS system of Speedwords." Lancelot Hogben, Editor of Loom of Language, 1944.
"I have used Speedwords for over 40 years now. It has been one of the most worthwhile investments in learning I have ever made. It truly is a TOOL for the individual to use for personal growth and as an international auxiliary method of communication. And, I find it more valuable as each day passes. Dutton certainly did his homework." R.J. Petry, C.L., Lymphologist.
Use 10 Speedwords to Increase Writing Speed by 25%!
"Short words are best".... Winston Churchill
"Speaking rates: Average college professor... 100-125 words per minute. Fast-talking professor.... 125-175 words per minute. Fastest public speech on record.... 336 words* per minute. [* ...a portion of a speech by Pres. John F. Kennedy, December, 1961.] Therefore, one thing is clear from these numbers:Without learning and using Speedwords you will lose over half of what you hear. Why? Here are our average longhand writing rates. 20-30 words per minute, below-average. 35-50 words per minute, average. 50-60 words per minute, above average." Have you timed your own note taking lately? Well, now you have a fundamental beginning reason to learn Speedwords. The International communication ability will become a side benefit later.
Listed below are the top twelve most frequently used English words with their rap lin rie equivalents. Learn and begin to use them. They, alone, will increase your efficiency by 25%! From now on, all new updates will begin to incorporate these words into this page. Later, several languages of the same words will be added for your learning and enjoyment.
the l, of d, and &, to a, in i, a u,
that k, is e, was y, he s, for f, it t.
Well, k e l beginning list & lesson i Rap Lin Rie.
Want a pdf file for personal use with Speedwords basics? Want to see how others help promote Speedwords? Then click HERE !
Comments
Wwwayne on Dec. 22 2007[I seem to have forgotten where contributions should be posted, so I put it here for now...]
For another contribution, see the Speewords <=> English online translator created by William Patterson (a.k.a. Ailanto) at:
http://www.kafejo.com/lingvoj/.../tral/index.php
Such a tool can be useful in learning a language even though it's only what I would call a "first-level translator"; i.e., it just looks up each word of the input and outputs the corresponding dictionary entry in the other language.
One obvious use would be to type in all 1-letter "words":
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
choose "From Speedwords", and click "Submit Query". You'll get a list of the Dutton Speedwords* one-letter words and their English equivalents. Note that, as for many (most?) auxlangs, there are no distinctions in person and number for the various tenses of verbs; so, for example:
e = am,are,is,be
And you'll also notice one of the "problems" with this level of the language: each one-letter word but the last is actually two characters, since we need some sort of separator so the translator will recognize the start of a new word. How can we (partially) solve that?
If you try:
I you he she it one we you they
and this time "to Speedwords":
Source language: English
I = j you = eri, v he = s she = sh it = t one = eri, u we = w you = eri, v they = eri, g
so you now have all the personal pronouns. And checking for the difference(s) between "eri" and "v" for "you":
eri v
Source language: Speedwords
eri = one,you,they(impersonal) v = you
Although it's easy enough to edit such a small table "by hand", it's good to know that you can paste it into Word--or most any other word processor document--as a table and then select the second column and use "global replace" to get rid of the "= ", then the "eri, ".
To see how you might easily translate various tenses and moods (though not necessarily correct DS):
is was had have will would may might
Source language: English
is = e was = y had = hy have = h, ha will = r, vo would = yr may = pi might = vigee, ypi
with a few more "strays" to check out: "ha", "vo", "vigee".
By such simple "browsing" (which most are used to doing now from surfing the web!) you can pick up a lot of useful beginner information--and save some in your personal notebook to review later and build on.
This translator is a "server-side" application written in PHP so, although you can download the source code from the site, you have to do some work to install it on your own computer. The most obvious way is to install some web server so you can then "serve yourself". Another way is to translate it to a programming language that can be used without extra bother as a "client-side" application, either in a browser, or as a standard windowed or command line application.
I once began such a translation in response to a request on the Yahoo raplinrie group:
I'll dig it up (it was about three years ago) and make it available here.
(To be continued...)
---
*
Note that there are some differences between Dutton Speedwords (DS = a shorthand system for English) and Dutton World Speedwords (DWS = a shorthand system for all languages and, hence, an international auxilliary language). In the beginning (if I'm permitted to say that?) you needn't worry about the differences, and most resources you'll find on the WWW will be DS.
Auliuniv on Dec. 25 2007Yes, Dutton Speedwords and Dutton World Speedwords are slightly different.
The first is known primarily as a "shorthand" system for English speakers. Although, it can be used by any language speaker who learns Speedwords.
The Dutton World Speedwords was to be used as an international language and was a "distant" branch of the language Esperanto. Esperanto did not grow at all in Dutton's experience. He had spent considerable money in England advertising and promoting Esperanto. But, it went no where. So, he thought something "added" was needed to cause people to use an international language. At the time it is not certain he knew about Occidental. Anyway, he created Speedwords as a "double speed" International Language. It became fairly popular, but really began to grow when Dutton began to emphasize the "double-speed" writing for simple note taking.
With the note-taking system Dutton Speedwords, one can combine words and phrases. In other words, run them together to save time in writing and increase speed to upwards of 120 words per minute. This does not count the speed which could be obtained on the typewriter, or now, the computer.
Thus in Dutton Speedwords one can write pn for can not. However, in World Speedwords this is not allowed as it is meant to be a language. In fact, though, this phrasing and combining could be taught within the grammar of the "international language" manuals of Speedwords. There is no good reason why, even in international communication a Speedwordist could not understanding the phrasing.
Of course, one has to be careful in the beginning to not create phrases or combinations that conflict with the official vocabulary of the system.
Here are a few examples of phrase contractions:
as soon as, would be, z ja z in the international language. But, the phrase contraction becomes zjz in the shorthand version of Speedwords.
Thus, this method eliminates the spaces between letters, which also take time since the writing instrument must be lifted from the page to make the next letter. Others are:
as-well-as zuz
as-much-as zmz
dear-sir zao
and so forth.
Bob
