A little imagination

Steno Wizard would like to share a favorite brief along with a favorite visualization technique to keep it all straight.

Fiancé TPAE (male)
Fiancée TPA*E (female)

The way to remember which is which is that the girl (fiancee) gets the sparkly diamond ring. Sparkly diamond looks like the asterisk and voila!

Easy Roman Numeral Solution

Steno Wizard happened upon this Roman numeral idea at the very beginning of the realtime journey. This method is so easy to incorporate and will eliminate reporter hesitation in figuring out, oh, 10 -- hmm -- X or 5 -uh-V, etc.


Check this out. By incorporating the letter R- or -R on the keyboard with the strokes for the numbers 1 through 10 (at a minimum) or higher, and taking the time to define them into your steno database, you can be yet another step ahead in editing and look like a steno pro!

1-R I
2-R II
3-R III
4-R IV
5-R V
R-6 VI
R-7 VII
R-8 VIII
R-9 IX
10-R X
1E-R XI
12-R XII
13-R XIII
14-R XIV

and on and on...

More Philly Q&A Phrases

Steno Wizard loves phrasing! Phrasing is essential in our quest for speed. Realtime always improves when a reporter can keep up with the speaker.

How many HOUPL
How many times HOUPLTS
How many days HOUPLDZ
About how many PWOUPL
About how many times PWOUPLTS
About how many days PWOUPLDZ
How long HOUG
About how long PWOUG
How wide HOEUD
About how wide PWOEUD
How large HOURPBLG
About how large PWOURPBLG
How do you spell HOUP
How fast HOUFZ
About how fast PWOUFZ
How far HOUF
About how far PWOUF
How much HOUFP
Pretty much PREFP
About how much PWOUFP
How about HOUBT

Did you ever TKUFR
Did you ever see TKUFRZ
Did you ever say TKUFRS
Did you realize TKURLS
Did you recall TKURL
Did you remember TKUR or TKURPL
Did you have occasion TKUFGS
Did you ever have occasion TKUFRGS
Did you go TKUG
Did you feel TKUFL
Did you find TKUFD
Did you know TKUPB
Did you notice TKUPBTS
Did you understand TKUPBDZ
(of course TKO for all the do phrasing)

Is that correct STHARBGT
Isn't that correct STPHARBGT
Is that right STHART
Isn't that right STPHART
Is that true STHAR
Isn't that true STPHAR
Is that so STHAS
Isn't that so STPHAS

Sharing some Philadelphia Clinic Theory Phrases

Steno Wizard learned a smattering of brief phrases courtesy of the Philadelphia Clinic Theory (incorporating others picked up along the way) and thought it would be awesome to share these.

On the left-hand side of the keyboard...

KWRA I can't
KWREU I didn't
KWRU I couldn't
KWRAO I wouldn't
SKWRA you can't
SKWRO you don't
SKWRU you couldn't
SKWRAO you wouldn't

Then hook up these to the above strokes from the right-hand side of the keyboard...
-S say
-Z see
-NK think
-NKS think so
-MT mean to
-MTS mean to say
-BL believe
-BLS believe so
-NTS notice
-NDZ understand
-J imagine
-RKT recollect
-R remember
-RL recall
-RLS realize
-F have
-N know
-T tell
-TS tell us
-K care
-FG figure
-RZ recognize
-L like
-PT want

These are great for increasing Q&A speed.

Finally, the ANSWER

Steno Wizard has been learning some new techniques from Mark K. that maybe you'd like to know too. Life in the courtroom has become much easier as a result.

Try these on...

Yes, I did KWREUD
Yes, I do KWRAO
Yes, he did KWRAOED
Yes, she did KWRAOERBD
No, I didn't TPHEUPBT
No, I don't TPHOEPBT

Amazing, huh? Who knew!

Practicing

Steno Wizard has made a commitment as a working reporter to -- practice!?! Monday through Friday at least 15 minutes will be dedicated to practicing the steno craft.

Here's a list of my current briefs I'm working on. They are printed out and placed on my courtroom desk and my office desk where they are reviewed every single day until they're cemented into my brain.

ARPBGT arrangement
ARPBGTS arrangements
AOBG automatic
AO*FT automotive
P approximate
P-L approximately
P*G Pentagon
POELGT apologetic
POEPLD podium
PHEBLG mechanical
PHEP metropolitan
PHERBGT metric
PHEUPBLGT midget
PW-DZ beside
PWAOPBD abandon
KUFLD custodial
KUFPBD custodian
KEPLT contempt
KOEUPBS coincidence
KO*ERG category
KAUFGS causation
KAORT coordinate
KAORGS coordination
KHRABT collaborate
KWAOEPBS convenience
KWAOEPBT convenient
TKPHEUT admit
TKPHEUTD admitted
TKPHEUTS admits
TKPHEUGS admission
TKPHEUFBL admissible
TKPWRAEZ agrees
TKPWRAEBL agreeable
TKPWRAEPLTS agreements
SRO volunteer
SROZ volunteers
SROG volunteering
SROPL volume
SROPLZ volumes
SROER voluntary
SROERL voluntarily
SRAODZ avoids
SRAOBL avoidable
SPWELGS intelligence
SPWELGT intelligent
SPW*ELGT intelligently

How about that CRR?

The August CRR test was on Education and Certification, and the words that were given to the test candidates were kindergarten and Washington.

Steno Wizard writes several of the words that appeared on the exam in one stroke.

Education JAEGS
kindergarten K*G or KEUNTD
Washington WA*UG
certification SERGS
incentive SN*EFT
high school HAOL
contemporary KRAER

Can't think of any more right now...

Back from NCRA Convention!

Steno Wizard just returned from the Windy City! Many reporters, many ideas, and many briefs to share. Perhaps you were there. Spied a very impressive CART reporter at work -- very, very impressive. Finger spelling all those proper names that cropped up unexpectedly. Attended a Mark Kislingbury seminar and bought his book. So much to do, so much to incorporate. Of course, he also won the speed contest again.

Chicago SHEUG or KHEUG
education JAEGS
educational JAERBL
educationally JA*ERBL
strategic STRAEK
strategy STRAEG