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I love TKWARD

I know that I'm a bit sick when I get excited about briefs, but I actually do. I've been writing Ed E*D for the last 30 years, and I hate it every single time I write it. I hate that stroke.

Thanks to Mark & TKWARD, I have now mixed it up, and Ed is now TKWED. And I can't wait until someone says Edwin, so I can throw that TKWEUPN in there, too.

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Permalink Reply by Brenda Rogers on August 2, 2009 at 9:03

Oh, Janet, join the club! I actually give a little jump of joy and excitement when I find a shiny new brief! It's a sickness for sure. LOL

Permalink Reply by Tami on August 2, 2009 at 13:46

Just another very ill reporter here . . . :)

Permalink Reply by April McMillan, CRR, RPR, CSR on August 2, 2009 at 14:53

My name is April . . . and I'm a briefaholic!

Permalink Reply by Janet on August 2, 2009 at 16:03

So good to know I'm not alone anymore. I think of them when I'm driving. I am an addict.

Permalink Reply by Mike Rowell on August 4, 2009 at 20:53

I have an hour drive to school in the morning, so there are a few days a week where the first thing I do when I get set up is to enter the new briefs from listening to the morning talk radio broadcast :O

Permalink Reply by Andrew Snail Sutton on September 5, 2009 at 9:48

hehehe. you're not alone. it has been a hobby for me to learn shiny new briefs since theory. I remember in dictation classes afterwards there would always be some comment about: Agh! that x word or phrase! Is there some way around it?! It was always interesting to hear the suggestions of the top o' people's heads or something they found in a book^^

Permalink Reply by Gary Wolpow on September 5, 2009 at 11:55

I understand the use of TKW for Edward and for Edwin...

But I've lost it on Ed as TKWED could someone explain that one to me?

Also, how would one write the word edit? edited? using the TKW...

As to briefs in general, I find myself falling to sleep thinking of them, or waiting places and thinking of them, or being driven somewhere or on the train/bus and thinking of them.

If someone has to have an obsession or a compulsion, or a hobby, not a bad one to have... IMHO... LOL...

Permalink Reply by Janet on September 5, 2009 at 13:10

I had been writing Ed "ED for 30 years, hating the stroke. Since Edward, Edwin and Ed are all forms of the same word, and they're written TKWARD and TKWIN, the TKWED made sense to me. ED is he had for me, so I couldn't use that. Use whatever works best for you. We all think differently.

I don't use the TKW for edit, so someone else will have to answer that one.

Permalink Reply by Brenda Rogers on September 5, 2009 at 13:31

Janet, I started adding * to ED for Ed ages ago. But then I'd get ed, as in special ed, and I'd be stuck. DWED makes sense to me!

DW is distinguish. I've always used ETD for edit.

Permalink Reply by LeAnne Law on September 5, 2009 at 13:40

Janet, that's a great way to distinguish Ed. I've always had a conflict with Ed and ed since one of them had to take the asterisk. When you're only working with two letters, it's pretty hard to come up with a tie breaker.

Gary, I also write edit as ETD.

Permalink Reply by Janet on September 6, 2009 at 8:52

I have to spend much more time on Magnum Steno Club, because I have to admit I write edit in two strokes. I've been focused more on cutting down the bigger words into one stroke. The other day I had diversification come up about 20 times in a deposition. When I had two seconds to stop and create a brief, I came up with TK-FRGS.

I'll change "edit" right now while I'm thinking of it.

Permalink Reply by Brenda Rogers on September 6, 2009 at 12:54

I got ETD in school. We had such a great teacher! She gave us tips from when she was reporting, things that worked and helped cut things down.

I LOVE D-FRGS!! It's an open outline for me. *snag*