Pretty amazing briefs! :)

 

The word "pretty" is amazingly simple to incorporate into our phrasing repertoire (ROEURPT). 

Out of an abundance of caution, I've inserted asterisks in a couple of the phrases, but you may not need them if the stroke without the asterisk is conflict-free. 

Explore and enjoy!  Maybe you can think of others. 

If so, please share.  😉

Forward phrases

Moving forward!

Forward is such an easy word to phrase.  Let me share with you some of my favorites!

To help discern "to it" from "to the" -- remember one of my favorite methods:  The asterisk dots the "i" in the phrase.  😎


 

HOPE!

 

    

How many times HOUPLTS do we steno writers hear the word "hope" in a proceeding? 

From my Gregg shorthand school days -- anybody remember those pen strokes -- we would write "hope" with the P stroke. 

I never did learn a method in machine shorthand for adding "hope" to a phrase, so I invented my own -- at least I think I did.  😉

So...I add *P to phrases for hope!

For good measure, I pulled up my other "hope" phrases as well.  I hope you want to explore this idea.  It's working for me.

Quite phrases

 I'm expanding my repertoire on the phrases I use that start with the word "quite" -- and maybe you'll like them quite a bit as well. 

Adding "few" and "ago" to some common phrases

I'm sure we've all learned the particular phrases below during our court reporting school days.

In an effort to grow our repertoire, we can add the  -F key to add "few" -- with the addition of an -S or -Z for the plural versions.  

We can also add the -G key for the word "ago."  How spectacular is that!

SKWREBGD, the -G is already in the outline for the phrase "just a second."  In order to add "ago" to the phrase,  my suggestion is to add the asterisk, SKWR*EBGD.  Voila!  Just a second ago! 

It's easy enough to add the -F and the -Z to transform the phrase to "just a few seconds" SKWREFBGDZ and add the asterisk SKWR*EFBGDZ for "just a few seconds ago."

Bonus - if you phrase "quite a while" KWAOEUL, you can add the -G for "quite a while ago" -- KWAOEULG. 

Double bonus - you can also add the -G to some time ago - STAOEUPLG.

😁  It pays to phrase!!!!!!!