Fairly Familiar Phrases

How about some cool briefs for all those common phrases reporters hear just about every single day?!

Get a gander at these:

by the way BAE
by and large BLARJ
off the top of my head FOPD
on or about OERB
on the other hand OERND
one way or another WAOURN
quite a while KWAOEUL
quite a bit KWAOEUBT
quite a few KWAOEUF
one of a kind WUFKD
first of all FEUFRL
as opposed to SP-T
take into consideration TAEURGS
take into account TAEUKT
due to the fact DAOUFK
right off the bat ROFBT or RAOEUFBT

Interpreted Answers (or Not)!

What is a realtime reporter to do when there's an interpreter that's supposed to be interpreting and a witness who occasionally answers in English?!  Arrghh. 


Steno Wizard is sharing one technique that is working for those bilingual interpreter-resistant witnesses.


Steno Wizard uses the answer bank in conjunction with the I vowel for when the witness answers the question through the use of the interpreter.  So EU-FRPBLGTS is A. (Through Interpreter) and the answer continues. 


What does one do when it's the witness answering the question directly without the interpreter?  You guessed it!  E-FRPBLGTS and define it as A. (In English) and the answer continues. 


Now life is a little less hectic in this steno situation. 

The Numbers Game

How do you write those numbers?  Steno Wizard's method is the numbers that Steno Wizard wants to appear written out are written with the alphabetical part of the steno keyboard.  The numbers that need to appear in numerals are stroked using the number bar.  Many reporters do not care to use the number bar, but the Steno Wizard asks why not use all the keys on your steno machine?! 

Now there are some stroke-saving tips that SW uses.  For example, 11 is 1-E, 22 is 2-E, 33 is 3-E, E-6 is 66, E-7 is 77.  That's fairly common.  Another idea that SW uses is the number reversal method.  That's done by dragging in the EU letters.  For example, 87 is stroked EU78.  91 would be 1EU9. 

Admittedly, upon first incorporation, SW was reversing everything.  Ultimately, the reward was a gaining of control over numbers that get rattled off at Mach speed. 

The Roman numerals are written by dragging in the R- or -R keys with the number.  For example, 1-R is I, 2-R is II, etc.  Works very well for SW.

Using the English Spelling for a Clue on How to Resolve a Potential Conflict

Soundalikes

English spelling will offer a clue on how to resolve 
a potential conflict.

• cash  KARB               
• cache KAERB        
• compliment KPHREUPLT
• complement KPHREPLT
• rational RARBL           
• rationale RAERBL      
• rap RAP
• wrap WRAP
• gene TKPWAOEPB                                
• jean  SKWRAOEPB                          
• cue KAOU
• queue  KWAOU

AND EVEN MORE...

aid  AEUD
aide  AED
aides AEDZ
A.I.D.S. A*EUDZ (imagine the asterisk here for the periods in the abbreviation)
pain PAEUPB
pane PAEPB
mail PHAEUL
male PHAEL
picket PEUBGT
picture PEURBGT
hall HAL
haul HAUL
Hal HA*L (remember the shift key asterisk for capitalization of proper names)
mourning PHOURPBG
morning PHORPBG
roll ROL          
role ROEL      
ball PWAL
bawl PWAUL
balance  PWALS
Francis TPRAPBSZ
Frances TPRAEPBSZ
barns PWARPBZ
Barnes PWAERPBZ
road RAOD
rode ROED
coarse KAORS
course KORS or KOURS
hoarse HAORS
horse HORS