I’ve just looked up ‘detail’ in my dictionary.
It’s given as ‘det-a-l’ (which is just like Simplified) but the previous owner has written ‘det-reverse loop’ in pencil next to it. For ‘detailed’, they’ve written the same thing with a disjoined t, instead of the ‘det-a-ld’ that’s indicated.
Is that a Pre-Anniverary thing?
(by kevinwal for everyone)
Yes the reversing principle is used to express L and LS in the pre-anniversary manuals. One of the examples given is the word DETAILS. DOC
In addition to the word detail(s), pre-anny applies the reversing principle to till/tell, deal, mail, mile, smile, still, and style/stile. And, if you're used to it, it's faster and easy enough to transcribe.
That outline also means 'dares' in Anniversary, doesn't it? Are 'dares' and 'detail' the same in Pre-Anny?
The outlines look alike, but they are different. In pre-anniv, "dare" is d – reversed a, while "detail" is dt – reversed a. So "detail" is a little longer, going from the bottom to the top line.
Yes, of course the line is longer. I hadn't thought of that! The reverse r takes quite a bit of getting used to, if you're coming from Simplified. Does Anniversary not have the 'rd' outline? I'm only on Unit 10, but I haven't seen it yet.
The -rd stroke is not in Anniversary. Before Simplified, we used an r and a disjoined t for words that end with that -rd stroke. The -rd stroke isn't quite as necessary when you have the vowel reversal principle and omission principles. 🙂
The rd stroke is one of the good things that I like in simplified. Why didn't they think of that before?
The r + disjoined t to indicate -rd only applies to past tenses of verbs ending in r. For other words that end in -ard, -erd, -ird, or -urd, you use the reverse circle vowel symbol + d (large circle for -ard, small circle for -erd, -ird, and -urd). If they end in -ord, the r is omitted and it is written "o – d".