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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 15:08:37 -0400
> 
> I don't touch type and never have gotten anywhere close to dictation, so
> I'm probably not the best to give you ideas, but I just wanted to point
> out that I don't understand why you'd find it desirable for the software
> to remove the vowels that you did type.  From what I understand the
> purpose is to speed up typing, so you want to reduce the amount of
> typing that takes place rather than the amount of chars that get written
> in the file, so a "Disemvowelment Mode" seems like it operates at the
> wrong place.

If you switch to a language whose writing system is of the "abjad"
variety, you get your "disemvowelment" for free.