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Maltron Ergonomic stenography?
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Just discovered this and was wondering if anyone knows about/has any experience with it?…Continue
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Mary Smith posted a blog postStenography: Really professional codependency?
The following comes from a popular website listing signs of codependent people:- Feel most comfortable when they are giving- Find needy people to take care of- Try to please others instead of themselves- Have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility- Try to be all things to all people all the time- Have difficulty saying "no" and/or setting boundaries- Feel empty and bored when they are not involved in a crisis- Seek out chaos and then complain about it- Tend to have a self-esteem that is…See More
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Mary Smith replied to Mary Smith's discussion How do you do numbers? in the group Court Reporting Students"Thank you!! Very helpful!"
Keith Rowan II replied to Mary Smith's discussion How do you do numbers? in the group Court Reporting Students"I took the briefs that people have been using for decades and tweaked them to my own liking. Attached here is the file with all of them. There may be a few that I've changed, but this is pretty accurate."
Glen Warner replied to Mary Smith's discussion How do you do numbers? in the group Court Reporting Students"Hi, Mary.
I rarely pyramid the numbers; just write them in groups of ten all the way up to 100.
Your theory book will introduce you to the WR-RB stroke, or they'll skip that and introduce some new strokes for million, billion and trillion.
You…"
Mary Smith replied to Mary Smith's discussion How do you do numbers? in the group Court Reporting Students"Now that sounds like the way to go..... did you create your own briefs?"
Keith Rowan II replied to Mary Smith's discussion How do you do numbers? in the group Court Reporting Students"I write all my numbers phonetically. As long as all of the strokes are easy, it's no problem keeping up with big numbers or a lot of numbers. And if you miss one key, you can still usually figure out what the number is. If you…"
Mary Smith replied to Mary Smith's discussion How do you do numbers? in the group Court Reporting Students"I do pyramids a lot, but they don't seem to help me for numbers so much at this point.
So you write out really large number amounts phonetically as well? Granted, I haven't gotten to the big numbers, but I'm trying to figure out…"
Glen Warner replied to Mary Smith's discussion How do you do numbers? in the group Court Reporting Students"Hi, Mary.
I see you're at Prince in Denver, which is a Phoenix school!
If they follow the theory book, soon you will learn how to write all of your numbers phonetically ... and once I learned to do that, the only time I touched the number bar…"
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How do you do numbers?
I'm beginning to not like the number bar so much. I'm just learning to write 20-100, and if I want to make sure I don't drop or fall behind, I gotta use the number bar at this point. But I'm starting to notice that the number bar can also lead to cluster*f when it comes to getting back to home row and overthinking. But I can't imagine not using the bar for ridiculously large amounts, like large sums of money n such.What are you doing??See More
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Stenography: Really professional codependency?
The following comes from a popular website listing signs of codependent people:
- Feel most comfortable when they are giving
- Find needy people to take care of
- Try to please others instead of themselves
- Have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility
- Try to be all things to all people all the time
- Have difficulty saying "no" and/or setting boundaries
- Feel empty and bored when they are not involved in a…
Continue Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:54 — 2 Comments
When it's time to walk away
- When you realize you never knew you are dyslexic.
- When the letters start dancing on screen and page.
- When you realize that pulsing sound is coming from inside your head.
- Your spelling skills degenerate to a first grade level.
- When your curved fingers start balling into fists.
- When you start yelling at your writer.
- When you realize just how light your writer is any how easily it could be thrown through a…
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 21:45 — 1 Comment
Naughty funny steno story
My instructor told this story in class today. Had to pass it along.
A teacher (who happens to be a man) is dictating a list of low-frequency words to students when he comes across the word:
Teacher: Penis.
Student: How do you stroke that?
Teacher: It doesn't come up very often.
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 11:09 — 2 Comments
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- At 4:30 on June 23, 2012, Mary Jo Cochran said…
Hello; I would delete your blog on Stenography, professional codependency. You either want to be a court reporter, or you want to be a journalist. If you want to be a court reporter, that blog is a bit of an insult to those who worked for years to get that RPR, RMR, Realtime certification. If you want to be a journalist, do it somewhere else. I delete lots of my comments because of how they make me look.
- At 18:20 on May 29, 2012, Lisa Stanford said…
- Thank you for inviting me to the student group. I just joined and look forward to meeting fellow students!
- At 18:50 on May 5, 2012, Rebecca Mockbee said…
Thank you! I felt it went well!
- At 14:56 on May 4, 2012, Dawn M. Smith said…
Hi, thanks. Where do I find the student group?
- At 18:10 on April 18, 2012,
Cindy Clark said…
Hi Mary! Welcome to CSRNation! You'll meet a lot of really good, helpful reporters here.
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