Don’t?

Paragraph 159 on page 86 of the anniversary manual explains how to distinguish don’t from do not after a pronoun.  How is “don’t” to be written without a pronoun?  Is it just the do not with an apostrophe?

(by Ryan for group greggshorthand)


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  1. Good point. Or use figures.

    Come to think of it, I can't remember ever seeing the den blend standing alone in writing. Makes sense, since in fast writing it could be confused with than/then, or with time, if the proportion is off.

  2. Indeed: "do not" is written in full when alone. The same happens with the word "ten": use the den blend for 10 only in phrases, and write "ten" in full as t-e-n when used alone.

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