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Welcome to the Steno Wizard's Realtime Journey!






Remember when life was simple and all you had to do was make a selection on what your steno really meant? Those days are long gone.





Reporters must get themselves into top realtime form to compete in today's job market. This is my contribution toward ALL of us reaching the realtime goal.



My Steno Wizardry concept is based on the idea that writing realtime actually doesn't require magic -- just hard work, determination, and a little bit of FUN imagination.



My hope is my sharing of the ideas I've incorporated into my realtime journey will assist you in yours.



Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Compound Words

There are some words that can be used by themselves or as a prefix or as a suffix. What's a realtime reporter to do?


These words create word boundary issues for many, for example, overtime or over time, and then you have turnover and turn over.


Steno Wizard's first foray into realtime writing involved trying to conquer this issue by using the J-/Y- solution, and, boy, what a wonderful way to begin!

Steno Wizard adds the initial J- to the prefix words (because J is at the beginning of the alphabet). Then the initial Y- is used for the suffix words. Why? Because Y- is at the end of the alphabet. Whew, that's easy!

So all one must do is write JOEFR for the prefix over- and YOEFR for the suffix -over.

There's a ton of possibilities here.

Here's some words to begin.

After~ JAFR
~after YAFR
ever~ JEFR
~ever YEFR
out~ JOUT
~out YOUT
up~ YUP
~up JUP
under~ JUND
~under YUND


Steno Wizard does not use this methodology for the words "on" and "off" due to a phrasing fanaticism, so Steno Wizard uses the asterisk key for those two particular words for the prefix and adds the H- key for the suffix. Make sure you go ahead and have the proper name Hoffman defined in your dictionary and you're good to go. Enjoy!
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