Define the word part "Ameri" as a prefix and watch some of those unique proper names actually translate! Steno Wizard was in court one day and didn't even realize this gem was in the SW steno database until the attorney said something along the lines of the company is named either "Amerisure" or "Amerishield" or "Ameristaff" -- and SW was quite astonished to notice this little lovely section looking quite readable with no editing involved.
This has sparked an idea to think of some other more unique word parts that may be input as prefixes and/or suffixes to aid in realtime translation.
Perhaps -shner, -enberg, -heimer, Eichen- or owitz?
Added August 2012 -- Just had a witness say she worked for Americare and ta-da! We just can't take our dictionaries for granted. Amazing...
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
What will be will be...
Steno Wizard struggled for several years with the -le ending and the brief "will" written with the final side -L key. SW realizes some reporters use the initial side HR-/L for the "will" brief, but that wasn't the way SW initially learned it in school (or at least the final side -L was something that stuck for oh so many years). Anyway, to resolve this sticky wicket, "will" began to be written out WEUL and the final side -L key is defined as the "le" ending in the steno database (dictionary). That solution seems to be working well.
What about those wonderful phrasing possibilities with "will be" and "it will" you ask? Steno Wizard writes "will be" as a stack WEUBL and "it will" as TWEUL. One can also write "it will be" in one stroke as well TWEUBL.
The word "twill" has the asterisk inserted into the stroke, sort of like the button on a piece of twill clothing. The proper name Will also has the asterisk inserted into the stroke.
will WEUL
will be WEUBL
it will TWEUL
it will be TWEUBL
This solution may or may not work for you, but it's food for thought nonetheless (TPHOPBLS).
By the way, SW has been using T-L for the word "typical" and T*L for the word "typically" -- so SW hasn't missed the final "L" key for "will" quite so much.
What about those wonderful phrasing possibilities with "will be" and "it will" you ask? Steno Wizard writes "will be" as a stack WEUBL and "it will" as TWEUL. One can also write "it will be" in one stroke as well TWEUBL.
The word "twill" has the asterisk inserted into the stroke, sort of like the button on a piece of twill clothing. The proper name Will also has the asterisk inserted into the stroke.
will WEUL
will be WEUBL
it will TWEUL
it will be TWEUBL
This solution may or may not work for you, but it's food for thought nonetheless (TPHOPBLS).
By the way, SW has been using T-L for the word "typical" and T*L for the word "typically" -- so SW hasn't missed the final "L" key for "will" quite so much.
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