Tutorial 4: Why waste time write lot word when few word do trick?



You're almost ready to go out into the real world :')
This tutorial section is going to be question words, and just a few generally helpful (IMO) tables for referencing back later.


Actually, you're already ready for the real world.

***RAMBLING ALERT*** As I mentioned in the first tutorial, you don't have to adhere to these guidelines, especially if you're only planning on using these characters in your notes. I personally use a mix of English and Scribblish in my notes, for example some of the longer and more complicated words in English and the articles and quick/common words or sentence structures in Scribblish, since it's just faster that way (at least for me, I'm sure if you practice it'll also be much faster for you, too). Sometimes though, when I write, or try to write in Scribblish 100% (or as closely as possible), I feel like I grasp the notes better. It's also just a lot more fun, at least for me! Also less annoying for me, since I really do hate writing normal letters, and also I just a lot of the time can't read my handwriting after writing the words. In other words, you can use this knowledge however you like. Sometimes it's just easier to connect ideas together if you try to find out how to write out a noun for that topic, or there's a clearly easier way to write it in Scribblish compared to English. I loooove using the scribbles in and out, as another example, since they just feel so much nicer to use to me, and they're actually somehow faster to use than the regular 'in' and 'out' in english, too. That's just one example. I'm rambling because I've been editing this page for a while, but I hope my point is coming across, that Scribblish is what you make of it. These are guidelines that made the most sense to me, and I hope they'll enable you to write faster notes in the future!



TL;DR: Scribblish is a tool to make note-taking faster. This tutorial is mainly a guideline. You can mix and match what rules work for you personally, especially if it's just you writing your own notes.

Need I say more?

So far, we covered adjectives, nouns, and verbs. I mean, is there anything really else to say about their structure? No, no there isn't. Unless I'm told that I didn't explain things well enough, which, fair enough, this was all one draft so far. I'm hoping all of this has been making sense so far.

Actually, I lied, there's a bit more: Question words and stuff

There's not a whole lot left that I came up with, besides just a bunch of words to describe stuff, which I'll make a more comprehensive dictionary for than the currently sparse quick reference sheet. Questions are easy. There's a main 'question marker' scribble, plus an adjective or noun to make the question into a who, what, where, when, why, how, etc. question.


To type a question marker, type 'qM' into the translator.


Look! A table! How convenient.

English word/phrase/sentence Scribblish word/phrase/sentence Explanation
(general) question

¢£

Literally, "[question marker] null/blank." You can use this when saying, "I have a question," for example.

Who

¢o

Literally, "[question marker] person." The question marker is the main part of the phrase, then after that you have the more exact version of the question, in this case you ask who.

What

¢g

Literally, "[question marker] thing." I hope you can see the pattern forming here. The thing is what you're asking about, and the question marker is just saying you're asking a question.

Where

¢X

Literally, "[question marker] [position marker]." The same logic applies as above.

When

¢[

Literally, "[question marker] [time marker]." The same logic applies as above.

Why

¢¢

Literally, "[question marker] [question marker]." The same logic applies as above.

How

¢j

Literally, "[question marker] do." The same logic applies as above.

How Many

¢®

Literally, "[question marker] value/number." The same logic applies as above.

Basically, just slap that question marker before another scribble to ask about that kind of thing!

Woah, another table! This one's got the adjective markers listed out.

English word/phrase/sentence Scribblish word/phrase/sentence How to type into translator (case sensitive)
Position marker

X

posM OR positionM
Time marker

[

timeM
Temperature marker

Y

tempM
Speed marker

Z

speedM
General size marker

\

sizeM
Length marker

]

lengthM
Width marker

^

widthM
Height marker

_

heightM
distance marker

`

distM OR distanceM

What about if, and, or, but, because, etc.?

Woah, another table! This one's got the adjective markers listed out.

English word/phrase/sentence Scribblish word/phrase/sentence How to type into translator (case sensitive)
And

&

and
Or

or
Parallel

parallel
Also

also
If

if
(left object) because of (right object)

lbcr
(right object) because of (left object)

rbcl
of

of
dot

dot
adjective/noun brackets

adjMs [adjective/noun] adjMe
from

dot
this

dot
next

dot

That's pretty much everything! Now go out and scribble! (Or go to the next tutorial for some quick tips on writing scribblish and my personal conventions for writing stuff)