Part 1
Despite being unable to, for obvious reasons, explain Teeline as detailed and I would like, I am going to note the consistent rules that must be followed, if successfully understanding and writing in teeline.
1. Letters are joined together as they are in handwriting. This makes writing easier and quicker.
2. The second letter generally begins where the first letter ends. (This should mostly be done in one movement, without the pen leaving the page). The exceptions are X at all times and K when it follows H, J or P.
3. Remove all medial vowels i.e. towel = twl.
4. Remove all silent letters i.e. right = rt.
5. Remove one of double letters i.e. numb = nm.
6. When a word starts with a small letter, it is advised to write the second letter in its normal writing position.
7. Special outlines should be used to speed up writing.
8. As well as the normal alphabet, letter combinations can be made from teeline characters i.e. 'ch', 'wh', 'th' and 'sh' are four of the most common.
9. Vowels are small symbols, certain consonants such as 'm' and 'n' are medium sized, whilst others such as 'b' and 'p' are larger. 'd' and 't' are called flat symbols.
10. If a vowel is the first letter of the word it must be shown.
11. Vowel indicators should be used if there is any likelihood of confusion, when reading back.
13. When a word begins or ends with a double vowel, either the first or more strongly sounded vowel is shown.
14. In terms of punctuation, the main rules you need to know are that a full stop is represented by an upwards sloping line and capitals are represented by two small sloping dashes underneath the word. A teeline hyphen is this sign again, but written again between the two halves of the outlines. Nearly all of the other punctuation marks are the same.
15. Some words have the same outline. In these cases, context makes it clear what word is required. (Write letters in longhand, if context is still leaving you unsure of the word).
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ReplyDeleteI’m just learning teeline online. I’ve done a dictation but there are no answers to check. Can you help.
How do you write/ form ‘wx’ ‘ wsh’ ‘fsh’