SHORTHAND I (ENGLISH) 11. THE HALVING PRINCIPLE The strokes or denotes for each phonetic word is developed and accordingly the strokes are made. However in order to save the time and effort on part of stenographer, principle of shortening the stroke by half in length is developed which a stenographer should learn.
11.0 Objectives After going through this lesson you will be able to – 1)
make the stroke of ‘T’ or ‘D’ applying halving principles;
2)
vocalize half length of forms;
3)
know about halving of stroke when circle ‘S’ follows;
4)
know to make the half length;
5)
know where halving principle does not apply;
6)
know the position of half-length forms;
7)
know the half strokes of ‘M’ ‘N’ ‘L’ ‘R’;
8)
know about joining of S strokes of unequal length;
9)
know how to apply the principle of halving in phrasography; and
10)
make Grammalogues using the principles of halving.
11.1 Introduction In order to save the time and effort, strokes are shortened by half in length called halving principle. In this lesson, halving of strokes, their positioning and their joining have been explained in a very simple manner. The conditions when the halving principle is not applicable are also described by giving examples to make the student easily understand. Halving means half length of any stroke. It is called halving principle. The strokes are halved in length for the addition of 'T' or 'D' only.
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