IInd Form. — Shortwords of 2 dissimilar vowels[1]. They are to the number of 16.
These staffwords represent all Abbreviations of different sorts:
1° Four staffwords finishing by u signify:
au : the following noun is a proper name.
eu : the following word of an other language than that of the speaker and equally of an other one than that of the interlocutor, or yet a technical word.
iu : the following word of the language of the interlocutor or of the correspondent (of the person to whom one speaks or writes).
ou : the following word is a word of the native language of the speaker or of the writer (of the person who speaks or writes).
The two first words — au and eu — will say « look out » and warn that the word following one of these terms may be unknown, as it is a special word; a proper name or a strange word to both parties concerned.
The two last words — iu and ou — will be very useful for rapidity of elocution and writing in case of a word forgotten in the interlocutor's language, since they will permit to continue the speech (or the correspondence) skipping, so to say, a word b (See p. 55).
2o Four staffwords, indispensable to be known, offer the possibility of translating the whole of the notions contained in two entire classes of words; they symbolize the ideas of connexion and designation:
io[2], as expression of subordination in general.
This word could supply a preposition whatever.
oi[2], as expression of conjunction in general.
This word could supply a conjunction whatever.
ea[3], as general expression of designation with the idea unity.
This word could supply an article, an adjective or a pronoun in singular whatever.
ae[3], as general expression of designation with the idea of plurality.
This word could supply an article, an adjective or a pronoun in plural whatever.
- ↑ In these 16 words the vowels are pronounced separately (See Alphabet, p. 3).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 We may note that the vowels i and o composing these words are the only ones which enter into the words of the connectives' class.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 We may note that the vowels e and a composing these words are the only ones which enter into the words of the designatives' class, where the final a will indicate the unity, and the final e, the plurality.
