History

The fundamental building blocks of English, roman letters, are based on ancient Latin. They have remained essentially unchanged for more than 2000 years, while English has evolved into a sophisticated, diverse and complex language.

Using an ancient writing system to record modern English creates numerous difficulties. The correlation between spelling and pronunciation is worse than that of any other major European language. More than half of English words contain some exception to common spelling rules. There is no doubt that we need a more advanced system of writing. That system is Newrite.

Newrite uses simple signs, but it is not a shorthand or speedwriting system. In these systems, speed is gained at the sacrifice of information. Words are abbreviated and many important vowel sounds are removed. Newrite, on the other hand, captures every sound more precisely than today’s writing, yet is still much faster to write. As short as the Newrite words are, each is as complete precise as its roman counterpart.

Newrite is a descendent of a German shorthand system taught throughout Europe in the 1930s. Walter Kistler learned this German system as a youth and found that it gave him an advantage in his studies and later, in his business career.

When he moved to the United States, he found that the German system was inadequate to handle the complex sounds of English. Instead of abandoning the system he had found so valuable, Walter enhanced and reinvented it. The result is Newrite!

Walter has used the Newrite system in his private life for over 40 years. He has used it to prepare thousands of pages of business reports, patent applications, speeches, presentations and outlines, as well as more than twenty volumes of private diaries.

Newrite is an advanced way to put words on paper. It is faster to write, easier to read, and requires less space than conventional handwriting. The written text looks neat; words are elegant and as easy to recognize as the faces of friends and relatives. It is phonetic and does away with the complex and erratic English spelling rules. It is precise – a word is written as it is pronounced and it is pronounced exactly as it is written.

- Walter Kistler