Current Shorthand

[citation needed] Sweet wished to produce a shorthand system which could replace longhand in most situations.

[1] For this reason Sweet proceeded to develop a shorthand which is a pure script which is easily written with any slant comfortable yet does not sacrifice legibility.

The orthographic style is based on traditional English spelling, and so is easier to learn but slower to write.

[2] Vowels are attached to the consonants and can, therefore, be omitted; the script is linear, like longhand, and can be easily adapted for use in printing.

George Bernard Shaw wrote in Pygmalion that the system's fatal flaw was Sweet's indifference to business, as well as the already established infrastructure of Pitman shorthand.