The fastest shorthand outline within reasonable limits is the outline that requires the least mental effort, the outline that is written consistently and analogically. The speed of shorthand outline is not to be judged by its brevity to the eye, nor even by its facility for the hand; it is to be judged by the speed with which it may be constructed by the mind and supplied by the mind to the hand.
John Robert Gregg, Gregg Shorthand Dictionary Simplified (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1949), vii–viii.

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