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Very (short)handy

Punctuation

A lot of grammar falls by the wayside in shorthand, but a few essentials remain. Full stops are the main ones. In Teeline they look like slashes rather than dots. It’s essential that it goes through the line. If it doesn’t it could be mistaken for the letter ‘r’, which sits on the line.

Teeline shorthand outline for '.'
Special meaning
.
Teeline shorthand outline for 'are'
Letter
r
Special meaning
are

Here is an example of full stops in action for the passage ‘He was mad. Real mad.’

Teeline shorthand outline for 'he'
Teeline shorthand outline for 'ws'
Teeline shorthand outline for 'md'
Teeline shorthand outline for '.'
Teeline shorthand outline for 'rl'
Teeline shorthand outline for 'md'
Teeline shorthand outline for '.'

Another key punctuation mark in Teeline denotes capital letters. They look like two small slashes and tend to sit beneath the word they apply to.

Here is an example of it being used in the special outline for ‘English’:

Teeline shorthand outline for 'english'
Special meaning
english

The symbol is especially useful for proper nouns and people’s names.

It’s unnecessary to capitalise the first letter of a sentence in Teeline as it’s clear, thanks to the period slash, where one sentence ends and another begins.

There are other punctuation marks in Teeline but those are the big two.