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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.



Sunday, June 13, 2010

Resolving balance, ball, bawl

Steno Wizard learned the brief for "balance" as PWAL - ball - back in court reporting school. Obviously, that brief automatically creates a conflict and so it goes that it must be resolved for realtime writing.

A suggestion is to change the way to brief the word "balance" to PWALS. Pretty easy to implement. Balances is written PWALSZ, and balanced as PWALSD (if you're familiar with the Philadelphia shift) or two strokes PWALS/-D. Balanced is entered both ways in Steno Wizard's main dictionary (or steno database as a wiser realtimer once suggested calling a steno dictionary).

Changing the brief for balance enables us to now use PWAL exclusively as ball, and now bawl can be stroked as PWAUL. Multiple conflicts fixed!

1 comment:

  1. Great suggestion!

    Todd Olivas
    http://www.readback.org

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