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Comment by Mark Kislingbury on May 29, 2009 at 20:06

Jaime,

I don't have briefs for I don't really recall or I really don't recall.

I have a "general" guide for briefs/phrases: do a Google search for the word/phrase: if it gets 20 million hits or more, it really should be a brief. The "I really don't recall" and "I don't really recall" are relatively rare: Less than 50,000 hits on Google.

But if you, in your work, are getting it fairly often, how about....

YORL I don't recall
YORLD I really don't recall (seems a natural saying)
Y*ORLD I don't really recall (seems an unnatural saying)

Throwing in a -D can do some nice things in steno.

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 29, 2009 at 16:51

YEFRPBLGTS - A Yes
YEOFRPBLGTS - A Yes, sir
YAOFRPBLGTS - A Yep
YAUFRPBLGTS - A Yeah

Same with no:
NO{A} - A No.
NOE{A} - A No, sir
NAO{A} - A Nope

Comment by Jaimie on May 29, 2009 at 15:39

Hi there!
Okay, thanks Christine about the book. Also, just for the FYI I use HUP for uh-huh and H*UP for Huh-uh.
Hope everyone is going great.
Also, I just had one quick question, I can't seem to locate in the Magnum Steno book a brief for I don't really recall and I really don't recall. Also for "at some point in time". One more thing, if a witness responds with yes, sir, does anyone have a brief for that being on the same stroke as the answer bar?
Thanks everyone!

Comment by Mark Kislingbury on May 29, 2009 at 12:27

I am now recommending repeating a video on Magnum Steno Club until one can write it to 95% accuracy (if transcribed).

The idea is this: When we get beat up by a fast lawyer and/or witness, we overcome it by spending enough time on the case that we LEARN to do it.

Same thing can happen with these videos. If you repeat them, eventually you can write them at 95% accuracy.

If you are just too far away from 95%, then repeat them till you might be say 93% or something.

That assumes you have time. But the payoff will be big!

Comment by Mark Kislingbury on May 29, 2009 at 12:24

Day 9 on P-P/W-B

P-P 99%, W-B 96%.

Still feel slightly slowed down by the comma, but improvement slowly continues.

Comment by Mark Kislingbury on May 29, 2009 at 12:23

Christine,

I recently made one-strokers for those as follows:

uh-huh 4-U
uh-huhs 4-UZ

huh-uh 4*U
huh-uhs 4*UZ

As a last resort the number bar is a great conflict-breaker!

Comment by Christine Kirley on May 29, 2009 at 6:21

Brenda,
Will have to work on these. They always come fast and half the time I interpose them. Thanks for the ideas!! I think I like AUZ for uh-huh, AUSZ for uh-huhs and HAUZ for huh-uh and HAUSZ for uh-huhs :)

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 28, 2009 at 23:32

Glad you like them, Virginia. I spent all of school and 20 yrs of working writing U/HU and HU/U. Never occurred to me to try something different! Good for you that you were at least looking.

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 28, 2009 at 22:10

That makes sense, so I went to check my ASCIIs in SearchMaster. There are some, but not many. I looked at my more recent files, since I changed to the one-stroke brief. I found U/HUS and HU/US. Looked in my dictionary, thinking surely I'd defined them with -SZ. Nope! So either I'm doing it the old way or coming back with -S. I'll have to fix that!

Comment by Christine Kirley on May 28, 2009 at 21:56

Yes, that would work.
I hear the plural in the admonition. "Don't answer with uh-huhs or huh-uhs, as the reporter..."
Thanks!

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