With respect to the sentence "Near the top of the pile was a photograph that immediately caught my eye," would experienced writers perhaps compress "near the top of the pile" down to "near top of pile" or even "near top pile?" Since climbing the speed ladder means one can usually omit such words as THE, OF, etc., does it really just come down to preference on what you omit or compress? It would seem to me that this would be something you'd probably write out fully once, see afterward that it could be compressed further and then adopt that going forward. I look forward to the day when I can do all of that immediately upon hearing a phrase and boil it down to its essence! I'm sure it's just time. 😀
I do see your point Fred. The “experienced writer” may be recording the abbreviated version and regardless of the joining words the sense and accuracy would be sufficient. The learner wishing to pass a shorthand exam however would be somewhat reckless to rely on such short cuts because a verbatim note is necessary. “Near the top of the pile” abbreviated to “near top pile” may be transcribed as 1) “near to the top of the pile” or 2) “near to the top of this pile” which would mean 1) the addition of a word not dictated, and be counted as an error and 2) the addition of a word not dictated AND an incorrect word, incurring two penalties.
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With respect to the sentence "Near the top of the pile was a photograph that immediately caught my eye," would experienced writers perhaps compress "near the top of the pile" down to "near top of pile" or even "near top pile?" Since climbing the speed ladder means one can usually omit such words as THE, OF, etc., does it really just come down to preference on what you omit or compress? It would seem to me that this would be something you'd probably write out fully once, see afterward that it could be compressed further and then adopt that going forward. I look forward to the day when I can do all of that immediately upon hearing a phrase and boil it down to its essence! I'm sure it's just time. 😀
I do see your point Fred. The “experienced writer” may be recording the abbreviated version and regardless of the joining words the sense and accuracy would be sufficient. The learner wishing to pass a shorthand exam however would be somewhat reckless to rely on such short cuts because a verbatim note is necessary. “Near the top of the pile” abbreviated to “near top pile” may be transcribed as 1) “near to the top of the pile” or 2) “near to the top of this pile” which would mean 1) the addition of a word not dictated, and be counted as an error and 2) the addition of a word not dictated AND an incorrect word, incurring two penalties.
@@letsloveteelinetogether2273 Important feedback. Thank you.