I’m torn. I want to learn #shorthand #writing. But the choice is hard:

• I mainly write English, so something explicitly English works best. Like Gregg shorthand.

• But then, I also want to stay closer to conventionality of longhand, so Forkner? (Having started it, I discovered that it still strays too far from longhand and is rather a bulkier version of Gregg.)

• And I’m still Russian, so I have a lingering doubt that maybe I should rather learn (Sokolov’s) GESS #stenography, because Russian is (arguably) phonetically more expressive than English. And who knows, maybe I’ll start writing more Russian someday?

• Actually, is there a universal-ish phonetic shorthand system? Something like #Shavian, but shorthand?

AAAAAAAAAAAAA, why is it so hard to choose????