Simplified shorthand Schultz

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The Simplified Shorthand Schultz , also called VKS , is a shorthand system that was developed by Oskar Schultz from Berlin and published as a textbook in its 4th edition in 1958. Schultz tried to combine the advantages of the German unified abbreviation and the advantages of the Stolze-Schrey system , whereby the acquisitions of Stolze-Schrey far outweighed it.

Both the literal symbols for the vowel and the vowel symbols for suggesting the vowel on the following consonant are completely identical in the VKS with the Stolze-Schrey system. Thus, the reinforcement of the next co-sign by pressure is also applied to the corresponding symbols. Descenders are also raised a whole step; they stand on the baseline and lose their foot bow.

However, the characters for the consonants and consonants in the simplified shorthand Schultz differ in part from the German standard shorthand and also from Stolze-Schrey. In the case of consonant sequences with suffix-r, characters that run out to the right are written straight, characters that run out straight are lengthened upwards and characters that run out to the left are lengthened downwards; kr has its own mark. Vorlaut-r is displayed irregularly. The consonant l is written at the beginning and at the beginning of the word stem as well as after vowels as a loop, which is also the case with Stolze-Schrey in both cases. In contrast to Stolze-Schrey, the Schleifen-l is also used after r. As in Stolze-Schrey, the aftermath-l is represented as a point loop. The characters for f and v (in VKS character form like v in DEK) are identical as in stepography .

The Simplified Shorthand Schultz has around 110 abbreviations, i.e. separate short characters for the most common words and syllables . A number of abbreviations are used for several word forms or syllables, e.g. B. the same graphical form for the suffixes "-heit", "-keit" and "-tät". Some abbreviations are used - as with the German Euro-Steno and the stepography - for words that sound the same without a distinction between the part of speech; so z. For example, the abbreviation for "for" is also used in "leading", the abbreviation for the auxiliary verb "can" also in "gekannt" and the abbreviation for the suffix "-schaft" is also used in "business".

The VKS is divided into three levels. The lower level is referred to as "Allgemeine Verkehrsschrift", the intermediate level as "Büroschrift" and the upper level as "Speechschrift".

literature

  • Walter Kaden: New history of shorthand. From the creation of writing to contemporary shorthand. Dresden 1999.
  • Hans Karpenstein: The Simplified Shorthand Schultz (VKS). In: The stenography teacher. Scientific monthly to promote the teaching of shorthand, typing, and related fields. 1/1959, pp. 7-13.
  • Franz Moser u. a .: Living shorthand story. A guide to shorthand theory and shorthand history. 9th edition. Darmstadt 1990.
  • Oskar Schultz: Shorthand made easy with the simplified shorthand Schultz. 4th edition, Berlin 1958.