“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed” Quote from Michael Jordan.

Field Goals - 12192 Field Goals Attempted - 24537
Three Pointers - 581 Three Pointers Attempted - 1778

The above are just a few of the stats of Michael Jordan. Do you consider him a success or a failure? I mean, after all, he made less than half the shots he attempted. And he only made .327 percent of his three-point attempts. Is he still a failure or a success? When one looks at things this way, you could say that he’s a failure, right?
Well, most of us know who Michael Jordan is and it could be argued that he just might be the best basketball player to ever grace the court. So, where I’m a going with this?

Well, as a student, you face failure everyday….or at least you think you do. You think that not passing that test is a failure, or missing a word here and there, or dropping is a failure. Why is that? Is the culture such that we only look at the negative? Are we programmed to think that way? Perhaps so.

But everyone that has graduated from school or gone on to pass the required exams and become reporters were all in the same position that each one of you were at some point in the beginning of their start in this program. Everyone. I doubt that you will find a reporter that passed every single test they took, never dropped a word, or couldn’t read something back in class. If you do, I’d love to meet them.

So, are we failures here or are we success? My schooling was just as difficult as it has been for many of you. Others have had the same difficulty. I know some reporters that got out of school quickly, and, I know some reporters that didn’t get out so quickly. Are they failures or success stories. It took me three and a half years to get out of school. Does that mean I’m a failure? Some could say that I was. But, I push myself to keep on top of the technology and to improve myself all the time. I know others that were so gifted that they got out in sometimes around a year or just a little over a year. Are they a success? Some of those same reporters are probably scared to death to write a realtime job. Does that make them a failure? But wait, they got out of school quickly. I didn’t get out quickly and I’ve done just about all that a reporter can do. Does that now mean I’m a success? But wait, it took me longer to get out of school.

See where this is going? It’s all in the perspective of how you view your success in school and it’s also about not viewing yourself as a failure. Sure, you’re gonna miss tests. Michael Jordan missed shots….shots that could have won the game for his team. Maybe he failed at that particulare moment, but the next game, when it mattered, he was right there again looking for that shot. So, if he can do it in that arean, why can’t you? You put that test behind you. You put that bad day behind you and you “take that shot” the next time it comes up. Your failures will make you a better reporter in the long haul because you can take from your failure and learn from it and become a success.

After Michael failed to win the game, I’m sure he didn’t sit around and sulk and get depressed. I would bet that he probably took what he had learned and applied it to the next game. You should take this same example and apply it to the next test. Did you miss one or two words on the test and fail? Did you miss 10 words and fail? Well, so be it…..that test has come and gone and the only thing you can do about it is learn from that test/mistake and apply it forward so that when the next test comes along, you’re ready for it.

There are a very select few in this country that can do what we do. You’re part of that select few. Once you realize that you are part of that few, then, and only then, will you realize that you can do this. And by doing this, you will become a success. When you look back on where you’ve come from and to where you are now, how do you view it? Success or failure? I say that you’re all a success! You’re a success because you CAN do this and you CAN make it through this program. Sure, it is going to be hard. It was hard for Michael Jordan. He made it look easy because he worked his tail off behind the scenes, I’m sure. That’s why he became the success he is.

So….Prepare…..Commit….and succeed and don’t beat yourself up because you’ve failed. You didn’t fail. You’ve succeeded and you succeed each day as you go through this thing called life.
Hang in there. You can do it.
I believe in you!
(tipping hat)

Yes, sometimes that is what can happen on the above statement when you do not check your work and proofread what you’re about to turn in.  We are all human, but these are the kind of errors that one might see on a transcript from a student or a new reporter, believe it or not.

Sure, we are all trained to write these words differently, but there are still those times, because we are human, that we make little mistakes like the one above.

The point that should be made here is that if we were to see this go out and later be called on it, it would be rather embarrassing for us.  Not only for the one that actually sent it out, but for the profession in general.  It would appear that we do not know what in the world we are doing or one might ask if we were actually trained in the grammar field or trained in the English language.

There are several “catch words,” as I like to call them, that students and newbies should look for.  Ones that I find particularly troublesome are:

Your/you’re

Its/It’s

Believe/belief

there/their/they’re

a/an

right/write

Now, the above examples are only a very short list of the many words that can throw a sentence off.  One above that particularly annoys me is “its” and “it’s.”  I’ve yet to see “it’s” possess anything, but this is one word that is probably misused more in the English language than any other word I’ve seen.  “Its going to be a nice day.”  Or, “That dog sure is taking it’s time to cross the road.”  Or, “The machine, at it’s best, is perfect.”  You get the picture.

Of course, the other one that drives all of the seasoned reporters crazy when they are reading papers and the like would be “your” and “you’re.”  Those are misused in so many instances that the list is too long to even give examples of.

One other grammar area that I would like to discuss is when an attorney asks a question and the witness will answer the question with a “yes” or a “no” and then will add more to the answer that may not be responsive to the original question.

For instance, “Q.  Did you go home last night?”

“A.  Yes, I went to the store first.”

Now, that example above could possibly read that way, but I really don’t think the answer “yes” should have the rest of that statement tied in with it.  Chances are, there might have even been a pause between the “yes” and the rest of the answer.

A lot of us have our software set up, perhaps, to just automatically put a comma after the “yes” or the “no” and we may not even catch these examples.  But, I would say that cleary this is an example where proofing should have caught this, if nothing else.

I think the bottom line for students and new court reporters in the field is this:  Yes, someone actually does read your transcript after you’ve finished it.  Yes, they will probably see little errors like the ones I’ve mentioned above.  Yes, those areas mentioned above could clearly have been caught during the editing process as well as the proofing process to save embarrassment later on.

So, in short, take pride in your work, whether you’re still in school or just getting started in the field.  Remember that you are part of a profession that has a very important job and those before us have worked long and hard to make it what it is.  Let’s continue to keep this profession a respected profession and take pride in what we do.

Otherwsie, we aer knot gonig to last long and, belief mee, known of us won’t that to hapen yet.

I’ve been toying around with some new phrases……at least for me…..that I’ve been having pretty good success with.

I’ve been using the final -RZ for “recognize.”  It’s given me phrases like TKAOURZ for “do you recognize” and WAOURZ for “would you recognize.”  There are several others in that group I’m using and I won’t bore you with the rest of them.

Another thing I’ve been doing is using EUPT for “I want,” of course, but if I throw in the “*” key, I can also get *EUPT for “I went.”  That is also giving me options like WH*UPT for “when you went” and WHUPT for “when you want.”  With the final -PT for want and then throwing in the “*” key, it’s given me “went” for some of the same strokes I was using for the “want” phrases.  “Want” is definitely more common, but there are a few “went” phrases.

Also, another one I’ve been toying with is using final -RPT for “repeat.”  So, “would you repeat” could be WAOURPT.  Or “could you repeat” would be KAOURPT.  “Can you repeat” or “will you repeat,” etc.

Another one is using final -RT for “return.”  Or, you could perhaps using -RPBT for “return.”   KURPBT would be tough for “can you return,” because many theories use that for “current.”    Also, you could try using -RPBT for “turn.”  This comes in very handy for those document-intensive cases where the question almost always begins with “Can you turn to the next page.”  Or, “Would you turn to the next page.” 

You might possibly want to try just using the -RPB for “turn” or “return.”

I haven’t checked all the theories and it may be that I am the one that is behind the times.  Maybe not.  Hopefully not.

Lastly, you might even want to add the -D or even a -DZ for additional words to the phrases for things like “can you turn to the” (KURPBTD) or “did you return to the” (TKURPBTD). 

Perhaps others will have some other ideas or thoughts.

(tipping hat)

Where is all of this going? Well, I have accepted a positon on the Student Committee in NCRA and am looking forward to seeing what I can do for the students out there to try to get them out of school and into the market. That is what I’m going to do.

What can you-all do? For starters, I started a group called Encouraging Court Reporting Students that many of you have joined and for that, I am truly thankful. Please do your best to try to jump in there when you can and offer encouraging words or answer any questions that you feel are something you’d like to contribute to.

Secondly, find students in your area, if possible, and try to provide the support you are able to provide to them and encourage them to want to do this and make it through the school.

What else can we do? Well, I think it is time that NCRA put up a student section on here…..unless I’m blind and have missed it. I think that if we are going to promote NCRA, one place to start is with the students. We need to show them that realtime is the way to go. That they need to be on the top of their game and be prepared for all opportunities when called upon and that to not do that is a disservice to the profession.

We need to encourage them that they should strive to get into the mode of writing realtime on all of their jobs and have a complete knowledge of how to set up the different outputs to attorneys.

We need to show them how to work with scopists and how to find scopists. Also, we need to encourage them that they need to pull on the full knowledge base that is contained in NCRA as well as the full knowledge base of what is contained in each of our heads. We all have a lot to offer them, but we need to make them feel comfortable in coming to all of us, either personally, publically, or through NCRA.

We’ve talked a lot about students and have implemented a Total Immersion program, but let’s give the students a place to come to here where they can be comfortable chatting, asking questions, etc.

Maybe we need to have Open Chat Nights for the students every now and then for them to come in and chat with us.

We are all gonna move on and retire as we become more “seasoned” and if we don’t leave this profession in good hands, we all might was well step aside and give this over to ER/DAR. I’m not ready to do that.

We need to lead my example, which means that each one of us steps up our game. If we are just gonna sit back on our laurels, whether working in court or freelance, and don’t do what we know we should do……again, let’s just give this profession over to ER/DAR.

I personally am not ready to do that. Are you?

A very dear friend of mine is leaving the profession because of some of my brutal remarks about if we are going to sit in court and not be able to provide realtime or the services that we are paid to do, then we are doing a disservice to the profession.

Sure, some of us may never ever ever have to provide this service to clients, but, we owe it to ourselves as well as the profession to be prepared. Not be prepared to call me when, at the last minute, you’ve been asked to do a realtime job and you need to call me, or your friend in the area who does realtime, and say, “Breck, I’ve got a realtime job coming up tomorrow……can you tell me how to set up the output to attorneys????” That day has come and gone, my friends.

This is a profession and it consists of professionals……it’s time that we act like that and quit the whining and quit the complaining and step up to the plate. Please. Not for me…..for the profession.

John Madden, a famous commentator, as well as a Super Bowl winning coach has just retired from being a commentator for television.

When asked why he decided to retire, he put his remarks into two words: “It’s time.” (Okay, technically, that’s three.”

Well, in the words of John Madden, “It’s time.” Time to move ahead, inspire each other, draw from each other, promote this profession, help the students and be encouraging and respectful to one another.

We’ve just had a rather interesting convention with a very heated topic of discussion regarding testing ER/DAR. It’s been very heated over the months, it’s been eye-opening to some, it’s been frustrating for others, it’s been good for others.

Regardless of how we all feel about the subject: It’s Time! It’s time to move forward, protect our professions, protect our jobs, protect each other’s livelihood.

The Motion to Rescind is behind us now. It was a lot closer to passing than it was to failing; so, I feel that those of us that were there have made it known to the Board that we are not going to go quietly into the night. We still love what we do, we believe in what we do and that if we continue to fight for what we believe in, then, all should be good. I’m not ready to give up. Are you?

Whether you decide to leave NCRA because you don’t like what is happening or has happened, you are all still court reporters and that should weigh a lot more in your conscience than belong to an association. We need the association to have those that have the time to fight for us and represent us. Be if we don’t also represent ourselves in our own communities, then we all might as well crawl under our own little rocks and just give up.

I’m not ready to do that and neither should any one of you.

Lastly, I will close with this………IT’S TIME!!!!

(Tipping hat and grateful for what I have in this profession.)

P.S. Please come along for the ride.

 Breck Record, CSR (TX, MS), RPR, CCR (NM)

I want to share some experiences and maybe inspire some to reconsider whether to CART or not to CART.

There are so many talented reporters in this country that are missing out on something that is an unbelieveable experience that you’ll never get to enjoy in the legal arena.

Imagine going to a job where you’re going to write for the hard-of-hearing (HOH).  You’re going to walk into a setting where you may or may not have a clue of what is about to happen.  It could be a meeting, a town hall meeting, a private discussion, a classroom……who knows.  But, think about going to that meeting as the person on the other side of the table….the HOH person.  They probably can’t hear anything that is about to happen.  They look to you…..you, the CART provider that God has blessed with a talent that few ever possess.  A talent that few will never get to share with anyone.  You get to share your God-given talent with the person or this HOH crowd and be their ears.  “See What You Can’t Hear.”  That’s been my motto for what I’ve done in the past.

I’ve had the pleasure to work with many different groups over the years in the HOH arena and the one thing that you can count on…..at least a few times…..when working with these people are……TEARS OF JOY!!……from those that have never experience CART.  You are going to probably get a hug and true thanks for what you’ve worked so hard to perfect and do for them. 

What has been the most exciting for me is working in the church or the religious arena.  I had the honor to work for the Billy Graham crusade in San Antonio.  We had a section in the Alamodome strictly for the HOH.  Large screens all over the place and they could participate in the full service.  Ever tried to CART DC Talk’s christian rap song Jesus Freak????  Whew.  What a rush!!  Yeah, a rush.  Well, I did have the script to help me, but still……..

Now, here’s the fun part…….Billy Graham most always ends his service with a call to “come down.”  Well, for the most part, most of the section that I was providing CART for each night went down to the floor of the arena.   Do you realize what that meant???????   I brought people to God!!!…..through my fingers!!!  In church each week in San Antonio, I also brought the word of God to a few in my church…..through my fingers!!! 

Whether you work for one person in your church or town…..or you get the pleasure to work with the big names….you’ll never get a more rewarding feeling.

If anyone can beat that or convince me that CART isn’t worth it ….. I’d love to hear it.

(tipping hat)

Linda Kaiser

&

Breck Record

Why do you write realtime?

To save your career.

“Paper or plastic, ma’am?”

To provide an invaluable service to the legal profession.

Instant access to the transcript in a rough draft.

To set yourself apart from the crowd.

Who else is doing it here?

For the thrill of it. Edge-of-your-seat fun??

It is indeed a challenge.

Getting Ready

Warm up before you write. Find some MP3 files of dictated material and get yourself ready to write. (Show Popcorn files)

Get yourself in the zone. You probably write the best when you don’t think. Remember how that feels and extend it longer and longer. Learn how to control it. Learn how to get into it.

If you can only hit the keyboard 3 times each second….if you take that and multiply that by 60 seconds….you’re only writing 180 WPM, if each of those hits is one word. Do the math.

If you can hit the keyboard four times a second, you’re at 240 WPM, if each of those strokes is a word. How much “bang” for your buck are you getting?

How do you begin to write realtime?

Examine your dictionary for conflicts.

here/hear; there/their/they’re; tear/tier; peer/pier

Examine your dictionary for prefix and suffixes

-Z = {^s}

-D = {^ed}

-D -D = {^ed}

-SZ = {^s}

-TDZ = {^ed}

-G = {^ing}

-G -LT = {^ing}it

-GS = {^ings}

-GSZ = {^tions}

-L = {^le}

-LS -PBS = {^lessness}

-LT = \{^let}\it

-BLS = {^bles}

-PLS = {^ms}

-PLT = {^ment}

-PLTS = {^ments}

-PBD = \{^ened}\{#N}{^nd}

-PBS = {^ness}

-PBG = {^ening}

-RS = {^ers}

-FD = {^ed}of

-FL = {^ful}

-FPLT -FPLT = {^}:

U HROESZ = {^ulosis}

U HRAR = {^ular}

U HRAEUTD = {^ulate}{^ed}

UR REUFPL = {^eurism}

UR RO = {uro^}

URG = {^urgy}

ET = {^et}

EBG TO SEUS = {^ectasis}

EBG TO*EPL = {^ectomy}

EBGS = ex-{^}

EP = {epi^}

EP PEU = {epi^}

EPB = {en^}

EPB -G = {^ening}

EPB TKO = {endo^}

EPBS = {^ens}

EPBT = {^ent}

ER = {^er}

ERD = {^er}{^ed}

ERS = {^er}{^s}

ERSZ = {^er}{^s}

ERGS = {^er}{^s}

ERPBT = {enter^}

EUD KWRO = {idio^}

EUBGS = {^ics}

EUBLT = {^ibility}

EUPL PHU TPHO = {immuno^}

EUPL PHAOUPB TPHO = {immuno^}

EUR = {ir^}

EURPBT = {inter^}

EURPBTD = {inter^}

EURPBLT = {inter^}

EUF KAEURB = {^ification}

EUFT = {^ivity}

EUFPL = {^ism}

EUFPLS = {^isms}

*S = {^st}

*T = {^th}

*TD = {^th}

*TS = {^th}

*LS = {^less}

*LT = {^th}

*BG = {^k}

*P = {^p}

*PLT = {^ment}

*PB = {^}-in

*RD = {^rd}

*FP = {^ch}

*UP = {^}(u)

*UPB = {un^}

*URG = {^urgy}

*URGS = {^urgist}

*URL = {^urgical}

*URPB = {un^}

*URPBD = {under^}

*URPBT = {under^}

*ES = {^est}

*ESZ = {^est}

*ET = {^eth}

*EP = {^}(e)

*EPB = {^en}

*EPBD = {^ened}

*EPBS = {^ens}

*EPBT = {^enth}

*EPBG = {^ening}

*EUS = {^ist}

*EUT = {^th}

*EUGS = {^ist}

*EUBG = {^ic}

*EUBGS = {^ics}

*EUP = {^}(i)

*EURB = {^ish}

*EUF = {^ive}

*EUFPL = {^ism}

O = \oh,\to\{^}o\{^}o{^}\o{^}

OT TO = {oto^}

OLG = {^ology}

OLGS = {^ologist}

OPL PHA = {^oma}

OPBD = \on\{^ond}

ORS = {^ors}

OF THA = \{ophthal^}\off that

OEU = {#N}{^}/{^}{#N}

OEUSZ = {^iosis}

O*T = {oto^}

O*T TO = {oto^}

O*LG = {^ology}

O*LGS = {^ologist}

O*LGSZ = {^ologist}

O*LGT = {^ology}

O*LGTS = {^ologist}

O*BLGS = {^ologist}

O*P = {^}(o)

O*PB = {^on}

O*R = {^or}

O*FT PHA = {ophthalmo^}

O*UT = {out^}

O*EFR = {over^}

A PHAOEPB TPHO = {amino^}

AZ = {^s}a

AD = \{^ed}a\add

AG = \{^ing}a\agriculture

AGS = {^ation}

ABG = {ac^}

ABG U = {acu^}

ABG KU = {acu^}

ABG KRO = {acro^}

ABL = {^ble}

ABLT = {^bility}

ABLTD = {^bility}

APB TKRO = {andro^}

APBG KWRO = {angio^}

APBG SKWRO = {angio^}

AR = {ar^}

AR TER KWO = {arterio^}

AR TER KWRO = {arterio^}

AR THRO = {arthero^}

ARBL = {^erable}

AFB = {^ative}

AUD = {aud^}

AELT = {^ality}

AEPBT = anti-{^}

AEURB = {^ation}

AEURBS = {^atious}

AEURBL = {^acial}

A*T THRO = {athero^}

A*L = {^al}

A*P = {^}(a)

A*PBLG = {^age}

A*RT THROE = {arthro^}

A*F = {af^}

A*ES = {^’s}

AO O KR-FPLT SR-FPLT = {00-CV-^}

AOE = {’^}

AOES = {^’s}

AOEUZ -D = {^ized}

AOEUDZ = {^ide}{^s}

AOEUTS = {^itis}

AO*LG = {^ology}

AO*E = {^ee}

AO*EU AO*EU = {^}” ª

AO*EUZ = {^ize}

RE = {re^}

RE SUS = {resusci^}

REBG TO*EPL = {^rectomy}

RERBL = {^ent}{^ial}

REFPLT = {re^}

REURBD = {^ish}{^ed}

REUFPL = {^ism}

REUFRPBLGTS = {ri^}

R*P = {^}(r)

R*E = {re^}

R*EBG TO*EPL = {^rectomy}

RO = {ro^}

ROP THE = {^ropathy}

ROFPLT = {ro^}

ROEUDZ = {^roids}

RO*LG = {^ology}

RO*LGS = {^ologist}

RAL = {^ural}

RAB TKO = {rhabdo^}

RAP THE = {^apathy}

RAPBS = {^rance}

RAPBLG = {^rage}

RARPBS = {^rance}

RAFRPBLGTS = {ra^}

RAER = \rather\{^iary}

RAEUGS = {^ation}

RAEURT = {^rature}

RAEURTS = {^rators}

RAEURB = {^ation}

RAEUFB = {^ative}

RAOE = {^ry}

RAO* = {radio^}

RAO*PL = {^room}

H-PB = {^}-{^}

H-F = {^}-{^}

HE PAT HRO = {hepato^}

HEBGS = {hexa^}

HEPL PHO = {hemo^}

H*P = {^}(h)

HO*US = {^house}

HAOEU PO = {hypo^}

HAO*EURP = {hyper^}

HR-PBT HREU = {^lently}

HRUPL PWO = {lumbo^}

HREBG TRO = {electro^}

HRER = {^ler}

HREFRPBLGTS = {le^}

HREU = {^ly}

HREURBD = {^lished}

HREUFPL = {^ism}

HREUFRPBLGTS = {li^}

HR*P = {^}(l)

HR*URLG = {^urgy}

HR*URLGS = {^urgist}

HR*EU = {^ly}

HROL = \logical\{^logical}

HROPBLG *EUBG = {^logic}

HROESZ = {^losis}

HROEUSZ = {^iosis}

HRA = {la^}

HRAPBT = {^lant}

HRAPBTS = {^lants}

HRAR = {^lar}

HRAR KWRO = {^lario}

HRARS = {^lars}

HRAFPLT = {la^}

HRAFRPBLGTS = {la^}

HRAEUTD = {^lated}

HRAEUGS = {^lation}

HRAEUFB = {^late}{^ive}

HRAOURB = {^olution}

HRAOEFD = {^lieved}

HRAOEUZ = \lies\{^ize}

HRAOEUZ -D = {^ized}

HRAOEUZ -G = {^izing}

HRAOEUZ ER = {^izer}

HRAOEUS -D = {^lized}

HRAOEUSZ = {^lizes}

HRAOEUFR = {^izer}

HRAO*EUZ = {^ize}

HRAO*EUT = {^light}

HRAO*EUBG = {^like}

W-D = {^ed}with

W-FPLT W-FPLT W-FPLT TKOT = www.{^}

WERS = {^wers}

W*P = {^}(w)

W*EUT = {with^}

W*EULT = {with^}

WAFRPBLGTS = {wa^}

WAEUGS = {^ation}

WAEURB -Z = {^uation}{^s}

WAO*EUD = {^wide}

WAO*EUS = {^wise}

PER REU = peri{^}

PEU = {pi^}

PEUFRPBLGTS = {pi^}

P*P = {^}(p)

P*ED *EUS = {^opedist}

P*EU = {^py}

PO = {po^}

POR ROESZ = {^porosis}

POR ROEUSZ = {^porosis}

PO* = {po^}

PO*LGS = {^pologist}

PAR RA = {para^}

PAEUGS = {^pation}

PAOE = {^py}

PAOEURD = {^pired}

PRE = {pre^}

PREPB = ({^}

PREFPLT = {pre^}

PR*E = {pre^}

PR*EPB = {^})

PRO = {pro^}

PROS TA = \{prosta^}\process at that

PROT *EUBG = {^porotic}

PRAUFR = {^s}

PRAOE = {pre^}

PHULT KWREU = {multi^}

PHUFBG HO = {musculo^}

PHUFBG HRO = {musculo^}

PHUFBG KO = {musculo^}

PHET TA = {meta^}

PHET TA PWEU = {metabi^}

PHET TA PWAOEU = {metabi^}

PHET TROEUSZ = {^metriosis}

PHET THO = {metho^}

PHEG HREU = {^megaly}

PHEG HRAOE = {^megaly}

PHEPBTD = {^mented}

PHEPBTS = {^ments}

PHEPBLT = {^ment}

PHEUZ = {mis^}

PHEUD = \mid\mid{-}{#N^}

PHEUTD = {^mitted}

PH*BG = Mc{^}{|}

PH*P = {^}(m)

PH*PBT = {^}-minute

PH*ET THO = {metho^}

PH*EUZ = {mis^}

PHOPB TPHO = {mono^}

PHOR TPO = {morpho^}

PHOEULS = {^moils}

PHO*LG = {^mology}

PHO*LGS = {^ologist}

PHO*PBT PERD = \{#W}{^}-month period\month period

PHA = {^ma}

PHAT EUBG = {^matic}

PHAT *EUB = {^matic}

PHAT *EUBG = {^matic}

PHAT K-L = {^matical}

PHATD = \mad\{^mated}

PHAL = \{^mal}\{mal^}

PHAL SKWR*EUS = {^mologist}

PHAPBSZ = {^ance}{^s}

PHAPBT = {^mant}

PHAELTS = {^malities}

PHAEBL = {^eable}

PHAEUTD = {^mate}{^ed}

PHAEURB = {^mation}

PHA*LGS = {^mologist}

PHA*BG = {Mac^}

PHA*PB = {^man}

PHAOEUZ = {^ize}

PHAOEUZ -D = {^ized}

PHR = Mr.{~}{|}{^}

PHR-S = Mrs.{~}{|}{^}

PHR-GS = Mrs.{~}ª{^}

PHR-R = Mr.{~}{|}{^}

PHR-RS = Mrs.{~}{|}{^}

PHR*Z = Mrs.{~}{|}{^}

PHR*GS = Mrs.{~}{^}

PHRAS TEU = {^plasty}

PHRAS TAOE = {^plasty}

PHRAUD = {^plaud}

PHRAEPBLG KWRA = {^plegia}

PHRAEU SHA = {^plasia}

PHRAEURB = {^plation}

PHRA*S KWREU = {^plasty}

PHRAOET = \{^plete}\meet\pleat

PWER = {^ber}

PWERS = {^bers}

PWEFRPBLGTS = {be^}

PWEUD = \{^ed}by\bid

PWEURBD = {^bished}

PWEUFRPBLGTS = {bi^}

PW*P = {^}(b)

PW*EU = {bi^}

PWO* = {bo^}

PWO*EU = {bio^}

PWAPBTS = {^bants}

PWAEUGS = {^ation}

PWAEURB = {^ation}

PWA*BG = {^back}

PWAOE = {be^}

PWROPB KEUL = {broncho^}

PWRAEUT = {^brate}

PWRAEUTD = {^brated}

PWRAEUBG KWRO = {brachio^}

PWHRER = {^bler}

PWHREU = {^ably}

K-L = {^ical}

K-LS = {^icals}

KET TO = {keto^}

KERS = {^ers}

K*P = {^}(k)

KO = {co^}

KO OE = co-{^}

KOPL = \come\{com^}

KOPB = {con^}

KOPB KRA = {chondro^}

KOPB TEPL = {contem^}

KOPB TKRO = {chondro^}

KOPB TKRA = {chondro^}

KOFPLT = {co^}

KOFRPBLGTS = {co^}

KOEPLS = {^ectomies}

KO* = co-{^}

KO*LG = {^ology}

KO*LGS = {^cologist}

KO*EPL = {^ectomy}

KAR PWO = {carbo^}

KAELTS = {^alities}

KAEUFB = {^ative}

KAOUTD = {^cuted}

KAOEUS = {^ize}

KR-R = {^}-CR-{^}

KRUPB = 01-CR-{^}

KR*P = {^}(c)

KR*R = {^}-CR-{^}

KR*UPB = 01-CR-{^}

KRO = {contro^}

KROPB = {chrono^}

KROEUSZ = {^crosis}

KRO*S = {cross^}

KRO*E = 00-CR-{^}

KRA = {contra^}

KRAT *EUBG = {^cratic}

KRAOEUB = {^cribe}

KHAPT = {chapt^}

KHRUGS = {^clusion}

KHRE = {^cally}

KHRER = \{cler^}\clear

KHREU = {^cally}

KHROPB = {^}:{^}

KHROR RO = {chloro^}

KHRO*BG = {^}:00

KW*P = {^}(q)

KWA = {equi^}

KWAEUTD = {^quated}

KWAOEURG = {^quiring}

KWRUL = {^ial}

KWRUP = {up^}

KWRUPS = {^ups}

KWRUPBS = {^uance}

KWRURPB = {under^}

KWRURPBD = {under^}

KWREPBS = {^ians}

KWREPBT = {^ient}

KWREPBTS = {^ients}

KWREU = {^y}

KWREU -PBS = {^iness}

KWREUSZ = {^y}{^s}

KWREURB = {^ish}

KWR*P = {^}(y)

KWR*UP = {up^}

KWR*UPB = {^ion}

KWR*ET = {^iet}

KWR*ER = {^ier}

KWR*EUS = {^est}

KWROT = {^iot}

KWROP = {op^}

KWROFRPBLGTS = {yo^}

KWROUT = {out^}

KWROUPB = {down^}

KWROEFR = {over^}

KWROEU = {^io}

KWRO* = o{^}

KWRO*B = {ob^}

KWRO*PB = {^ion}

KWRO*EFR = {over^}

KWRABG = {^iac}

KWRAP = {ap^}

KWRAPL = {^iam}

KWRAPB = {^ian}

KWRAPBT = {^ant}

KWRAPBLG = {^age}

KWRARB = {^iation}

KWRARPBD = {^around}

KWRARPBDZ = {^arounds}

KWRAFPLT = {a^}

KWRAUPB = {on^}

KWRAUF = {off^}

KWRAE = {a^}

KWRAELT = {^ality}

KWRAEPB = {any^}

KWRAEPBT = {^ianity}

KWRAEUT -G = {^iating}

KWRAEUTD = {^iated}

KWRAEUGS = {^iation}

KWRAEUGT = {^iating}

KWRAEURT = {^ator}

KWRAEURTS = {^ators}

KWRAEURB = {^iation}

KWRA* = {a^}

KWRA*BG = {^iac}

KWRA*R = {ar^}

KWRAOT = {auto^}

KWRAOULS = {^ules}

KWRAOES = {^ies}

KWRAO*E = {^ee}

KP*P = {^}(x)

KPAT = {compat^}

KPRO = {compro^}

KPHO = {chemo^}

KPHOE = {chemo^}

T-Z = {^s}the

T-D = {^ed}the

T-G = \{^ing}the\to go

TUL = {^ual}

TEL HRE = {tele^}

TEBT = {^tent}

TEPLS = \items\Items{~}{^}{#N}

TER = {^ter}

TER KWRA = {^teria}

TERD = {^tered}

TERS = {^ers}

TEUGS = {^tition}

TEUGS TPHER = {^titioner}

TEUBG AOEUTS = {^ticulitis}

TEUBG KAL = {^ical}

TEUF = \active\{^ive}

TEUFS = {^ives}

TEUFPL = {^ism}

TEUFRPBLGTS = {ti^}

T*P = {^}(t}

T*EU = {^ty}

T*EUF = {^ive}

TOD = \{^ed}to\to do

TOLG = {^ology}

TOBG KRA SAOE = {^ocracy}

TOBGS = {tox^}

TOFRPBLGTS = {to^}

TOEPBD = {^ened}to

TOERS = {^tories}

TO*LG = {^ology}

TO*LGS = {^ologist}

TO*EPL = {^tomy}

TABL = {^ble}

TAPBS = {^ance}

TAPBT = {^ant}

TAPBTS = {^ants}

TAPBLG = {^age}

TAELT = {^ality}

TAERPB = {^itarian}

TAEUT -G = {^tating}

TAEUTS = {^tates}

TAEUGS = {^ation}

TAEUGT = {^tating}

TAEUPB = {^tane}

TAEURT = {^ate}{^or}

TAEURTS = {^tator}{^s}

TAEURB = {^ation}

TAEURBS = {^tious}

TAEURBL = {^tational}

TAEURBL TPHAL = {^tational}

TAEUFB = {^tative}

TA*L = {^al}

TAOUT = {^stitute}

TAOE = \tee\{^y}

TAOEBG = {^tique}

TAOEUTS = \tights\{^titis}

TREBGS AET = {^trexate}

TROPL TER = {^tometer}

TROEUSZ = {^triosis}

TRAPB = {tran^}

TRAPBS = {trans^}

TRAEUTD = {^trated}

TRAOEU KHROR RO = {trichloro^}

THET *EUBG = {^thetic}

THER PHO = {thermo^}

THOPL = {^thom}

THAZ = {^s}that

THAD = \that had\{^ed}that

THAOEU RO = {thyro^}

THRO* = {arthro^}

THRAD = {^ed}that

TPER RA = {ferri^}

TPEU PWRO = {fibro^}

TP*P = {^}(f)

TP*EU = {^y}

TPOFRPBLGTS = \{fo^}\{^fo}

TPO*LD = {^fold}

TPO*R = {for^}

TPAORG = {^ing}for

TPAOEU = {^fy}

TPAOEU PWRO = {fibro^}

TPAOEUD = {^fied}

TPAOEUB PWRO = {fibro^}

TPAOEUBL = {^iable}

TPR-D = {^ed}from

TPR-G = {^ing}from

TPH = {in^}

TPH TPRA = {infra^}

TPH-RT = {inter^}

TPH-FPB = {inven^}

TPHU PHO = {pneumo^}

TPHU TPHO = {pneumo^}

TPHUS = {^nous}

TPHET TEUBG = {^netic}

TPHEL = \{^nel}\{nel^}\{^nel^}

TPHEPBS = {^ence}

TPHEPBT = {^nent}

TPHEPBG = {^ening}

TPHER = \{^er}\{inner^}

TPHERS = {^er}{^s}

TPHEF RO = {nephro^}

TPHEFRPBLGTS = \{ne^}\{^ne}

TPHEUFPL = {^ism}

TPHEUFRPBLGTS = \{ni^}\{^ni}

TPH*P = {^}(n)

TPH*EUS = {^ist}

TPHOLG = {^nology}

TPHOPL KAL = {^nomical}

TPHORS = {^er}{^s}

TPHOUS = {^nous}

TPHO*LG = {^nology}

TPHO*LGS = {^nologist}

TPHO*PB = {non^}

TPHO*E TPHA = {neonat^}

TPHA = \{^na}\that

TPHA TAOUD = {^nitude}

TPHA TPAOEUD = {^nified}

TPHAS = \{^}nas\nas\that is

TPHAT = {^ate}

TPHAL = {^al}

TPHAL HREU = {^nally}

TPHAPB TPHO = {nano^}

TPHAPBT = {^ant}

TPHAPBTS = {^nants}

TPHARB SHA = {^nasia}

TPHAUT = \{^naut}\naught

TPHAELT = {^inality}

TPHAER = {^ary}

TPHAERS = {^aries}

TPHAERPB = {^arian}

TPHAEUT KR-R = 98-CR-{^}

TPHAEUTD = {^ated}

TPHAEUTS = {^ates}

TPHAEUFRB = {^ative}

TPHA*E = {^nia}

TPHAOR = {neuro^}

TPHAOUR = \{neuro^}\newer

TPHAOUR RO = {neuro^}

TPHAOEBG = {^nique}

TPHAOEUZ = {^ize}

TPHAOEUPB KR-R = 99-CR-{^}

TPHR-PBS = {^fulness}

TPHREU = {^fully}

TPHREUBGS = {^fliction}

TK-S = {^}

TKEPL KWRA = {^demia}

TKER = {^er}

TKERD = {^er}ed

TKERS = {^ers}

TKEFPLT = {de^}

TK*P = {^}(d)

TK*EL = {^}

TK*EU = {di^}

TK*EUS = {dis^}

TKOT KOPL = {^}.com

TKOT KO*PL = {^}.com

TKOT TPHET = {^}.net

TKOT TKPWOF = {^}.gov

TKORS KWREU = {dorsi^}

TKORGS = {^doration}

TKOFRPBLGTS = \{do^}\{^do}

TKO* = {^do}

TKO*T TKO*T TKO*T = {^}{~}.{~}.{~}.

TKO*LG = {^ology}

TKO*UPB = {^down}

TKAPBT = {^ant}

TKAPBTS = {^ants}

TKAFRPBLGTS = \{da^}\{^da}

TKAEU SPHREU = \{#N}{^}-day supply\day supply

TKAO KWRO* = {duo^}

TKAOE = {^dy}

TKAOEPL O*LGS = {^demiologist}

TKAOEPL KWRA = {^demia}

TKAO*U KWRO = {duo^}

TKRAPBS = {^drance}

TKRAEUTD = {^drated}

TKHREU = {^ed}{^ly}

TKHRAR = \dollar\{#N}{^}-{^}dollar

TKWAEUFB = {^ative}

TKPHEPB = {demen^}

TKPW-L = {^ing}{^ly}

TKPWEUFBL = {^givable}

TKPW*P = {^}(g)

TKPWOR RAOEUZ -D = {^gorized}

TKPWOR TKO = {^gordo}

TKPWO*E = {geo^}

TKPWA = {^ga}

TKPWAUD TKRA = {quadra^}

TKPWAEUGS = {^gation}

TKPWAEURB = {^gation}

TKPWAEUFB = {^ative}

TKPWA*S TRO = {gastro^}

TKPWAOEUTS = {^itis}

TKPWREGS TPHAL = {^gressional}

TKPWRAFR = {^grapher}

TKPWRAEF = \gravy\{^ography}

TKPWRAEFR = {^grapher}

TKPWRAEUTS = \grates\{^grates}

TKPWRAEUGS = {^gration}

TKPWRAEURB = {^gration}

TKPWRAEUFB = {^ative}

S-PBT TA TRU = {^}; isn’t that true

S-PBT THA TRU = {^}; isn’t that true

S-FL = self-{^}

SUB = {sub^}

SUP = {sup^}

SUR KUPL = {circum^}

SEL RAEUTD = {^celerated}

SEPL KWRA = {^emia}

SEFRB KO = {cervico^}

SEUF = {^ive}

SEUFL = \civil\{^ively}

SEUFPBS = {^siveness}

SEUFRPBLGTS = \{si^}\{^si}

S*P = {^}(s)

S*R = {^}, Sr.

S*UR = {sur^}

SOS KWRO = socio{^}

SAL PEUPBG TKPWO = {salpingo^}

SABG RO = {sacro^}

SABG KRO = {sacro^}

SAPBTS = {^ant}{^s}

SAEUTD = {^sated}

SAEUGS = {^ization}

SAOE = \{^cy}\see

SAOEULG = {^ciling}

SAO*EUZ = {^cize}

SREPBGS = {^vention}

SREUL = {|-}{^ville}

SR*P = {^}(v)

SRAEUTS = {^ivates}

SRAEUGS = {^vasion}

SRAEURB = {^vation}

SRAOEPBG = {^vening}

SRAOEUTD = {^vited}

SH = {sh^}

SH-G = {^ishing}

SH-L = {^ishly}

SH-PLT = {^ishment}

SH-PBS = {^ishness}

SHUS = {^cious}

SHUL = {^ual}

SHUPB = {^ion}

SHUPBS = {^ions}

SHUPBL = {^ional}

SH*EUP = {^ship}

SHA = {^tia}

SHAER = {^iary}

SHAEUGS = {^iation}

SHAORD = {^ured}

SHAOUL = {^ial}

SHR-RB = {#G}{^}/{^}{#G}

SHRUL = {^ual}

SHRAEUGS = {^slation}

SHRAEURT = {^lator}

SHRAEURB = {^lation}

SHRAOE = \{^sley}\sle

SPHEU = {semi^}

SPH* = {^some}

SPHO = {seismo^}

SPWU = {intu^}

SPWE = {inte^}

SPWEUR = {inter^}

SPWA = {inte^}

SPWR = {inter^}

SPWRO = {intro^}

SPWRA = intra-{^}

SKE = {^sky}

SKOP *EUBG HREU = {^scopic}{^ly}

SKO*EP = {^oscopy}

SKA TPO = {scapho^}

SKAF TPO = {scapho^}

SKAOEUL = {^concile}

SKRUP = {^up}

SKRO = {synchro^}

SKROPB = {synchro^}

SKRAOURB = {excrucia^}

SKHAOR = {^ture}

SKHRER RO = {sclero^}

SKHRER RA = {sclero^}

SKWR = {^},{^}

SKWRUP = {^up}

SKWRUPS = {^ups}

SKWRUPBS = {^ence}

SKWRURPBD = {^under}

SKWREPBT = {^ent}

SKWREUBG = {^gic}

SKWR*P = {^}(j)

SKWR*UF = {^}-JUV-{^}

SKWR*EPB *EUBG = {^ogenic}

SKWROF = {^off}

SKWROFS = {^offs}

SKWROUT = {^out}

SKWROUTS = {^outs}

SKWROUPB = {^down}

SKWROUPBS = {^downs}

SKWROEFR = {^over}

SKWROEFRS = {^overs}

SKWRAUL = {^all}

SKWRAUF = {^off}

SKWRA* = {^gia}

SKWRAOE = {geo^}

SKWRAOEUZ = {^ize}

SKWRAOEUSZ = {^ize}{^s}

SKP-Z = \{^s}and\and his

SKP-G = {^ing}and

SKP-L = {^le}and

SKP-PLT = {^ment}and

SKP-PLTS = {^ments}and

SKP-PBS = {^ness}and

SKPER = {^er}and

SKPERS = {^ers}and

SKPHREU = {^ly}and

STEUGS = {^istician}

STEUBG = \stick\{^istic}

ST*BG = {^istic}

ST*EUBG = {^istic}

STOE = {osteo^}

STOEPL = {^ostomy}

STO*E = {osteo^}

STO*EPL = {^ostomy}

STA = \is that\{sta^}\{^sta}\{^sta^}

STAOUTD = {^stituted}

STAOUGS = {^stitution}

STREUBGTD = {^stricted}

STRO = {extro^}

STRO*E = {osteo^}

STRAEUTD = {^strated}

STRAEURB = {^istration}

STRAEUFB = {^strative}

STPH-FPLT = {P}({^}{|}

STPH*PLT = {^})

STPH*FPLT = {^})

STKEPL = {dissem^}

STK* = {dis^}

STK*S = {dis^}

STK*P = {^}(z)

STKOEP = {^doscopy}

STKP* = {dis^}

STKPWHR-Z = {^s}{Q}

STKPWHR-FPLT = {^}!

Alphabets

Upper case – A, B, C, etc.

A-FPLT, PW-FPLT, KR-FPLT

Lower case – a, b, c, etc. (Also used for fingerspelling)

A-RBGS, PW-RBGS, KR-FPLT

Upper case with period – A., B., C., etc.

A-FPLT/FPLT, PW-FPLT/FPLT, KR-FPLT/FPLT

Parens – (a), (b), etc.

A*P, PW*P

Speakers

Two strokes are bad. Waste of time. Why? Try to re-think yourself to one-strokers.

Common:

STPHAO, SKWRAO, EUFPLT, EURBGS

EUFRPBLGTS – THE WITNESS

STKPWHR-FRPBLGTS – THE COURT

STKPWHREU – THE INTERPRETER

Extend the Common:

STPHAO-F, STPHAO-R, STPHAO-P

SKWRAO-F, SKWRAO-R, SKWRAO-P

S-EUFPLT, T-EUFPLT, K-EUFPLT

S-EURBGS, T-EURBGS, K-EURBGS

Examples:

EURBGS = {S:SPEAKER4}

EURPBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFPT = {S:SPEAKER2}

EUFPLT = {S:SPEAKER2}

EUFPLTS = {S:SPEAKER2}

EUFPBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFRBLGS = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFRBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFRPLTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFRPLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFRPBGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFRPBLS = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFRPBLTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFRPBLGT = {S:THE WITNESS}

EUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

AEUFPLT = {S:ATTYA}

REUFPLT = {S:ATTYR}

HEUFPLT = {S:ATTYH}

HREUFPLT = {S:ATTYL}

WEURBGS = {S:WEURBGS}

WEUFPLT = {S:ATTYW}

WEUFRPLT = {S:ATTYW}

WEUFRPBGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

WEUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}

PEUFPLT = {S:ATTYP}

PHEUFPLT = {S:ATTYM}

PWEUFPLT = {S:ATTYB}

KEUFPLT = {S:ATTYK}

KREUFPLT = {S:ATTYC}

KREUFRPLT = {S:ATTYC}

KW*EUFPLT = {S:ATTYQ}

KWREUFPLT = {S:ATTYY}

KWREUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE DEFENDANT}yes

TEUFPLT = {S:ATTYT}

TPEUFPLT = {S:ATTYF}

TPHEUFPLT = {S:ATTYN}

TPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

TKEURBGS = {S:TKEURBGS}

TKEUFPLT = {S:ATTYD}

TKEUFRPLT = {S:ATTYD}

TKEUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE DEFENDANT}

TKPH-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

TKPWEUFPLT = {S:ATTYG}

TKPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

SEUFPLT = {S:ATTYS}

SREUFPLT = {S:VIDEOGRAPHER}

SREUFPLTS = {S:VIDEOGRAPHER}

SREUFRPLT = {S:VIDEOGRAPHER}

SHEUFPLT = {S:SHEUFPLT}

SKWREURBGS = {S:SKWREURBGS}

SKWREUFPLT = {S:ATTYJ}

SKWRAO = {S:SPEAKER3}

SKWRAOT = {S:SKWRAOT}

SKWRAOG = {S:SKWRAOG}

SKWRAOL = {S:SKWRAOL}

SKWRAOP = {S:SKWRAOP}

SKWRAOPL = {S:SKWRAOPL}

SKWRAOF = {S:SKWRAOF}

SKPWR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

SKPWHR-FRPBLGS = {S:THE COURT}

SKPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STHAO = {S:SPEAKER1}

STPHO = {S:SPEAKER1}

STPHA = {S:SPEAKER1}

STPHAO = {S:SPEAKER1}

STPHAOZ = {S:STPHAOZ}

STPHAOD = {S:DSPEAKER}

STPHAOS = {S:SSPEAKER}

STPHAOT = {S:TSPEAKER}

STPHAOG = {S:GSPEAKER}

STPHAOL = {S:LSPEAKER}

STPHAOB = {S:BSPEAKER)

STPHAOBG = {S:CASE MANAGER}

STPHAOP = {S:PSPEAKER}

STPHAOPL = {S:MSPEAKER}

STPHAOPBLG = {S:STPHAOPBLG}

STPHAOR = {S:RSPEAKER}

STPHAOF = {S:FSPEAKER}

STPHAO* = {S:SPEAKER1}{Q}

STPHR-FRPBLT = {S:THE COURT}

STPHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STPHRAO = {S:SPEAKER1}

STPWHR-RPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STPWHR-FPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STPWHR-FRPBLTS = {S:THE COURT}

STPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKWR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKWHRAO = {S:STKPWHRAO}

STKPHR-FRPLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPHRAO = {S:STKPHRAO}

STKPW-RPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPW-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWR-RPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWR-FRPLTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWRAO = {S:STKPWHRAO}

STKPWH-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-PBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-RPBGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-RPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FPLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPLT = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPLTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPLGT = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBGS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBLT = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBLTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBLG = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBLGS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBLGT = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBLGTSZ = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR-FRPBLGTSD = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHREU = {S:INTERPRETER}

STKPWHREUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHR* = {S: “Question}

STKPWHROFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHRAFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHRAO = {S:STKPWHRAO}

STKPWHRAOS = {S:STKPWHRAOS}

STKPWHRAOT = {S:STKPWHRAOT}

STKPWHRAOL = {S:STKPWHRAOL}

STKPWHRAOP = {S:STKPWHRAOP}

STKPWHRAOPL = {S:STKPWHRAOPL}

STKPWHRAOR = {S:STKPWHRAOR}

STKPWHRAOF = {S:STKPWHRAOF}

STKPWHRAOFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

STKPWHRAOEUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}

TYING QUESTION AND ANSWER TOGETHER

Question plus other stuff.

STKPWHR-OBG – Q. Okay.

STKPWHR-RT – Q. All right.

STKPWHR-RS – Q. All right, sir.

STKPWHR-OU – Q. Now,

STKPWHR-UPB – Q. You know

STKPWHR-US – Q. Uh-huh.

STKPWHR-UG – Q. Huh-uh.

STKPWHR-EUPBG – Q. I think

STKPWHR-EUPBD – Q. I understand

STKPWHR-EUZ – Q. I see.

STKPWHR-APBD – Q. And

STKPWHR-UR – Q. You are

STKPWHR-AUR – Q. And you are

STKPWHR-URP – Q. You were

STKPWHR-AURP – Q. And you were

Answer plus other stuff.

KWR-FRPBLGTS – A. Yes.

KWR-EFRPBLGTS – A. Yes, sir.

TPH-FRPBLGTS – A. No.

TPHO-FRPBLGTS – A. No, sir.

U-FRPBLGTS – A. Uh-huh.

Phrases

“And” phrases.

SKP -

AUFL – awful??? Why not SKPUFL for “awful”

Examples.

SKP = and

SKP -FRPBLGTS = and –{A}

SKP-S = and is

SKP-T = and the

SKP-TS = and it is

SKP-PB = and in

SKP-PBZ = and in his

SKP-PBD = and

SKP-RB = and she

SKPU = and you

SKPUZ = and you see

SKPUD = and you had

SKPUDZ = and you said

SKPUS = and you say

SKPUGT = and you got

SKPUGTS = and you get

SKPUL = and you will

SKPULD = and you would

SKPUBG = and you can

SKPUBGD = and you could

SKPUPB = and you know

SKPUPBD = and you understand

SKPUPBG = and you think

SKPUR = and you are

SKPURL = and you recall

SKPURBG = and you work

SKPURBL = and you shall

SKPURBLD = and you should

SKPURP = and you were

SKPUF = and you have

SKPUFD = and you have had

SKPUFL = and you feel

SKPUFB = and you have been

SKPE = and he

SKPED = and he had

SKPEDZ = and he said

SKPES = and he is

SKPESZ = and he says

SKPEGT = and he got

SKPEL = and he will

SKPELD = and he would

SKPEBG = and he can

SKPEBGD = and he could

SKPEPB = and then

SKPERP = and he were

SKPEFS = and he was

SKPEFLT = and he felt

SKPEU = and I

SKPEUZ = and I see

SKPEUD = and I had

SKPEUDZ = and I said

SKPEUS = and I say

SKPEUG = and I go

SKPEUGT = and I got

SKPEUGTS = and I get

SKPEUL = and I will

SKPEULD = and I would

SKPEUBG = and I can

SKPEUBGD = and I could

SKPEUBL = and I believe

SKPEUPT = and I want

SKPEUPL = and I am

SKPEUPB = and I know

SKPEUPBD = and I understand

SKPEUPBG = and I think

SKPEUR = and I are

SKPEURBD = and I should

SKPEURBLD = and I should

SKPEURP = and I were

SKPEUF = and I have

SKPEUFS = and I was

SKPEUFTS = and I was

SKPEUFL = and I feel

SKPEUFLT = and I felt

SKPEUFB = and I have been

WE

SKPWE – and we

SKPWER – and we are

SKPWEF – and we have

SKPWEBGD – and we could

SKPWED – and we had

SKPWEL – and we will

SW*E – as we

SWER – as we are

SWEBL – as we believe

SWEBG – as we can

SWEBGZ – as we can see

TKWE – did we

TKWAOE – do we

SWRE – have we

TPWE – if we

TPWER – if we are

STWHAE – is that we

STWHAOE – so that we

TWHAE – that we

TWHAER – that we are

TWHAEG – that we go

TWHAEZ – that we see

KWHER – which we are

KWHEBG – which we can

KWHEBGD – which we could

KWHERP – which we were

KWHEL – which we will

-TD - ed

ATD – added

PWAPBTD – banded

PWEPBTD – bended

PWOPBTD – bonded

TKPEPBTD – depended

EPBTD – ended

TPUPBTD – funded

HAPBTD – handed

HETD – headed

KPWOUPBTD – impounded

HRAPBTD – landed

HROETD – loaded

RA*EUTD – raided

RARTD – regarded

TRAEUTD – traded

WOUPBTD – wounded

ASTERISK

Let it work for you.

KEUPBG – kink; K*EUPBG – king

SEUPBG – sink; S*EUPBG – sing

REUPBG – rink; R*EUPBG – ring

U/T*EP – UTEP; A*US – USA; A*US – AUSA;

A*US/W*ORD – Assistant U.S. Attorney

A*FPD – AFPD; A*FPD/W*ORD – Assistant Federal Public Defender

Stroke+W*ORD – Spell out the acronym

NUMBERS

I write mine out……for the most part.

WUPB – one

TWO – two

THRE – three

TPOUR – four

TPAOEUF – five

SEUBGS – six

SEFPB – seven

AEU – eight

TPHEUPB – nine

TEPB – 10

HREFPB – 11

TWEFL – 12

THEURPB – 13

FORPB – 14

TPEUFPB – 15

SEUPB – 16

STEPB – 17

AEUPB – 18

TPH-PB – 19

TWEPBT – 20

TWUPB – 21

TWAO – 22

TWE – 23

TWOER – 24

TWAOEUF – 25

TWEUBGS – 26

TWEFPB – 27

TWAEU – 28

TWAOEUPB – 29

THEURT – 30

THRUPB – 31

THRAO – 32

THRAOE – 33

THROER – 34 (THROR)

THRAOEUF – 35

THREUBGS – 36

THREFPB – 37

THRAEU – 38

THRAOEUPB – 39

TPOERT – 40

TPRUPB – 41

TPRAO – 42

TPRE – 43 (TPRAOE – free)

TPROER – 44

TPRAOEUF – 45

TPREUBGS – 46

TPREFPB – 47

TPRAEU – 48

TPRAOEUPB – 49

TPEUFT – 50

TPWUPB – 51

….

SEUBGT – 60

SKUPB – 61

…

SEFPBT – 70

SRUPB – 71

SRAO – 72

SRAOE – 73

…..

AEUT – 80

KWRUPB – 81

KWRAO – 82

KWRAOE – 83

…..

TPHEUPBT – 90

TPHUPB – 91

TPHAO – 92

TPHAOE – 93 (TPHAO*E – knee)

TPHOER – 94

TPHAOEUF – 95

TPHEUBGS – 96

TPHEFPB – 97

TPHAEUT – 98

TPHAOEUPB – 99

WUPB/HUPB – 100 (WHUN – 100)

Down and Out Phrases

SKWROUPB - ^down

KWROUPB – down^

SKWROUT - ^out

KWROUT – out^

SKWRAUF - ^off

KWRAUF – off^

Punctuation

FPLT = .

RGBS = ,

FPLT/FPLT = :

S*RBGS = ;

OEU = /

AOEU = “

PREPB = (^

PR*EPB = ^)

AOE = ^’

Cursor Movement

STPH-F = Character left

STPH-R = Word left

STPH-B – Cursor down

STPH-P – Cursor up

STPH-G – Word right

STPH-L – Character right

Let me throw out a way to do that here very quickly. 

Make your document the way you want it to look as best you can in your word processor.  You can set some of your colums of from there as best you can. 

Then, save the file in a pdf format and take it over to Adobe Professional and finish it off there by putting in your drop-down fields and other things you want in there that Word or Word Perfect weren’t able to allow for.

Then, you can email this file to your Production/Billing department if you’re away from the office, and, you don’t have to scan the document later if you are using a scanning protocol for your documents in the office.  One less document to worry about.

Once the reporter fills out the file from the Master document, he/she will then Save As and name the job whatever your naming convention is in your office.

Naming conventions can be things like just the simple job number for a job such as 12345 or something with a date like 090107 or a combination like 12345_090107 or 12345090107 or 1234502CR123 or 12345JSmith.  It can vary depending on your needs.

Your scanning protocol should be considered carefully because you want to decide on the best way to retrieve your infomation at a later date should it become necessary.  Personally, I like to break out the exhibits and billing documents in different folders, even though I will use the same job number.   I could have a Billing folder on my network and then have an Exhibits folder on my network, each containing the same job number or job name.  Makes it easier to pull the exhibits up quickly and not have to sort through and cull out the billing/worksheet/etc. and then print them.   Conversely, if a client calls up and has billing questions, I don’t have to cull through the exhibits to find the billing information or worksheet.

Backing up:  Reporters should back up their dictionaries, at a minimum once a month…..AS WELL AS their user settings and stuff pertinent to their page settings.  To not do this is just asking for problems.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a reporter call me with problems and haven’t made copies of anything.  So, when you get through reading this post, get your thumb drive, jump drive, external drive, network drive and make a copy of the important files and workfiles and front pages and dictionaries and user settings of your stuff.  If you work in an office that utilizes a network drive for their backup, it doesn’t hurt to send the file to the network drive at the end of the day to back it up, even though you’re not finished with it.  You can overwrite the file the next day or whenever you finish the job for production.  If you’re not in a network, it takes two or three minutes to copy to a thumb drive at the end of the day.  I’d much rather re-edit a few pages versus have to re-edit the whole job over again.

I’m on a roll here.

Scopists:  Scopists should retain your files for you for at least a couple of weeks after they are finished with your work….just in case.  Once you’re gotten the file billed, delivered and backed up on your end, then let the scopist know that it’s to delete the file on their end so they’re not backlogged storing your stuff for you.  If you don’t have a good place to back up stuff, you can always get an online drive like www.flipdrive.com or www.xdrive.com.   They have huge amounts of storage space for very cheap.  What’s your stuff worth?  You decide on how much you want to gamble with your livelihood.

Are you writing realtime?   Why not????  There’s no time like the present to start.  Don’t tell me, “Oh, my dictionary is not built up.”   Mine isn’t either and I’ve been writing realtime since ‘90.  If you value your profession, get on board and get on board fast.  I have yet to have an attorney actually stand behind be and watch me write for the whole hearing or deposition; so, if you are afraid that’s going to happen or try to use that as an excuse, spare me. 

I love my job.  I love my career.  I love the people I’ve met over the years that I would not have met otherwise.  It’s up to me to protect your career by being the best I can be in my career just as much as it is up to you to protect my career by being the best you can be in your career.  Let’s all work together to keep this profession what it is and protect each other the best we can.  Hold your leaders accountable.  Hold me accountable.  Hold yourself accountable.

Lastly, again, get your thumb drive out or whatever means you use to back up your “stuff” and go do it.  You’ll be glad you did.

(tipping hat)

I’m just a country boy from a small cotton-farming community north of Lubbock, TX, and probably don’t have all the knowledge coming from a small town like that, but I’ve worked very hard to get where I’m at today.  I’ve met a lot of interesting people in my profession that I never ever would have met if I were to still sack groceries at the local grocery store or be a gas station attendant in my home town.  Now, I’m not putting anyone down who does that kind of work and I don’t want anyone to think I am.  Shouldn’t even have to mention that, but want to be politically correct. 

That all being said, we all should think that the record matters, from the court reporter down to the client who is suing or being sued.   Why?  Well, I know when I go to look for a new car, I look for quality and dependability and that normally leads me to a Toyota or a Honda.  Why?  Because they make a great product.  That’s how we should be viewed in the legal community.  

How has the reporting profession come to the point that we are not dependable or reliable?  Yes, we are probably more expensive than ER, but we provide quality and dependability.  If I didn’t want that in a car, I’d go find the cheapest car I could find, but, I would spend more time on repairs because I chose cheap over quality. 

I still, to this day, am very proud to call myself a court reporter.  “What do you do for a living?”  Proudly, “I’m a court reporter.”  I don’t hold my head down or feel sorry for that.  The only thing I’m sorry for is that we are a necessity in this world in the legal community to keep the record, and to keep it correctly.  That is an amazing burden and responsibilty that I don’t think a lot of new reporters realize coming out of school.  I know when I got certified that I KNEW everything there was to know about court reporting and could write fast.  Boy, weren’t we all amazed at just exactly how much we really didn’t know.

I remember one time a new reporter came to me and said, “Breck, what are certified questions?” 

I said, “Didn’t they teach you that in school?”

“No.”

“Well, what you have to do is you edit your transcript just like normal and then you take those questions where the attorney wanted them certified and you extract them into a new transcript and then you go to the witness’s house and make them answer the questions that they refused to answer in the deposition.”

(Pause)

“Do what???!!!!”

“Yes, you have to go to their house and wait for them to answer.   It sucks, but we’ve all had to do that.”

“They didn’t teach us that in school.”

You get the point here.  I had a blast with the reporter getting all excited about having to go to the “bad side” of town and wait for this 6′8″ guy to answer the question.

I say all this as an aside because it just reemphasizes the fact that as a newbie we don’t know everything.  How can I sit here and justify having someone that is cute, just out of high school, be my typist??  I can’t.  I have had student reporters work for me as scopists as they are training in school and when they first start with me, I’m amazed at just how much they don’t know in the beginning.  It’s not the fact that you can write fast or that you can type fast or edit fast; it is the fact that you have to be an “expert” right now in the field of what you’re editing.  There’s is no way to be an expert and know what a seasoned reporter knows coming out of high school.   Maybe editing a car accident case is an exception here, but we have got to really educate the public about the importance of why the record does matter.

I tell clients and attorneys all the time that I come across about how I have to be an expert in their field of discussion that day and I think it really gives them a new perspective on how difficult our jobs are when put that way.  They never think about what comes to them so easily and whether others might have difficulty with the lingo or the words or acronyms.  We only are able to do what we do by being able to say, “Wait a minute, what was that?  I didn’t get that phrase you just used.”  Show me a machine that can do that and I’ll embrace it, but I’m still convinced the reporter is what makes the record matter.

Whether it’s NCRA, TCRA or a local boy from a small town in north Texas, it is all of our responsibility to educate the public on what we do and how important our job is.  This should be done, whether we are threatened by new technology or not.  All I have to do in my office is keep messing up jobs and deliveries with one of my clients, and there’s another firm right down the street that would be very happy to take over that client’s business.

As associations, they should get out there with campaigns stressing how important the reporter is to the record in court and deposition.  The firm owners should stress to their clients how important the record is to them.  The reporters within the firm — yes, even them — should do what they can to promote the profession, because, again, there’s always a firm down the street or new technology on the horizon just waiting for us to mess up or sit back on our laurels and jump in and take over.  

We all have a responsibility to ourselves and our profession to keep it to the standards those who came before us have it set at.  Realtime is what will probably save our professions, but if all we do is hook up the writer to a computer and never try to improve ourselves or actually provide interactive realtime to clients or judges or whoever, what have we done to promote ourselves?  Nothing.  I’m no expert on realtime or the best realtime writer, but if I hear another person say, “Oh, but Breck, my dictionary is not ready” I’m going to scream.   I’m a better realtime writer now than I was when I started trying to write realtime in ‘91……a heck of a lot better.  I know how my program translates now, I watch my writing and I see right now what my problem areas are.  I’ve had to change quite a few things in my writing style, but it’s for the betterment of what the client gets at the end of the day.  It’s not about me; it’s about the client.  Being flexible is important and if we’re set in our ways, we are going to have problems.  If we’re willing to adjust, adapt and overcome, we will be better in the long run. 

This is not an easy profession.  I’ve said it before, you got to want it to be good and make your record matter.  If we all do nothing, we are doomed.

I don’t make a distinction between freelance or official here…..we are ALL Court Reporters.  We should all work together.  I’ve seen too many times where officials and freelancers don’t work together in the local community.  I’ve worked on both sides of the fence and it’s sad to say that there are many on both sides who are doing nothing to improve themselves.  Who am I to call anyone down?  I’m just an ol’ country boy, but I love what I do for a living and I plan on doing this for a long time.  If that means calling anyone out to wake up, then so be it.  We all need to wake up here and have a reawakening in the profession and promote ourselves the best way we can.

I’ve become a managing reporter now and have seen the other side of things from an owner’s perspective and I can appreciate the bottom line from the firm’s perspective.  As a firm owner, I can see how the firm might look at digital reporting when their reporters are not servicing the firm’s clients the way the firm wants the client taken care of.  I can appreciate how it’s easy to want to make a higher percentage on the profits when you’re paying the bills.  We all want to make money.   That’s a given.  I’m sure many firms struggle with how to keep the reporters excited about the work they do and how to keep the reporters current on all their work.  I don’t know the answers, but it’s going to be fun to try to figure it all out.  

Now that I’m out here on a limb, hopefully others will join me and we can swing together.  Doyle Brunson said, “Sometimes you have to go out on a limb…..because that’s there the fruit is.” 

Hopefully this doesn’t turn out to be the “Jerry Maguire” letter like what Tom Cruise wrote.

In closing, to quote Richard Dreyfuss from “The American President” in a roundabout way:  ……..My name is Breck Record and I AM a Court Reporter and my record DOES matter as well as MY profession.

This can also be applied to associations. Do we keep things as they are, or do we push to add members at the expense of the longtime members who aren’t willing to change? I don’t know. I remember the church I attended while in San Antonio and the average age of the members. The age was in the upper fifties, with a few families who were like me….in their late twenties and early thirties. Well, to try to get the majority to want to change or to do something different in church or to modify the service or the routine sometimes was about as hard as trying to get Congress to pass legislation or agree on anything. Many times, after new change was brought about, all were okay with it, but, in the beginning, it was a struggle and a fight to bring that change about.

We are probably, as a profession, at this same crossroads, whether nationally or in our own local and state organizations. Change is on the horizon, and how do we address this change? What’s best for the reporter? What’s best for the profession? What’s best for the client? These are questions that we all have to ask ourselves and figure out what direction we are willing to go and what direction we are not willing to go. What changes are tough but okay in the future? I don’t know. Should we fight ER or accept that it works? I don’t know. Is embracing ER by using backup audio media with our software okay? Was that the right thing to do? I don’t know. These are all things that have to be figured out and examined over the next few years and discussed. Knee-jerk reactions are definitely not the way to go, but in the defense of a knee-jerk, it just signifies to me the passion one feels about what they believe in.
 
I’m very passionate about court reporting. I hope to do this for many more years. Where does voice recognition come in? Digital? Do they scare me? Sure they do. Am I doing what I can with the technology that I have to fight it or protect myself? You bet I am. Is it something I should embrace in some form or fashion next year? Five years from now?   Ten years from now? I don’t know. Am I so set in my ways that I’m not willing to look at it and examine it? Not at all. I like to know my friends, but I like to know my enemies even better. I can sit here and badger that which I don’t know all day long, but until I really look at something closely, I’m not going to be educated on what I like or don’t like about it. I’m in no way suggesting that voice or ER are the way to go here, but I’m trying to have an open mind about it and understand the enemy before I go after it and try to destroy it.

I know a couple of things about digital right now:

1. Yeah, it can make a good recording.

2. Yeah, a person can sit there and monitor it.

3. Yeah, a tape can be made from it to transcribe.

4. Yeah, there are going to be “inaudibles” if the “monitor” doesn’t speak up and say “You were talking at the same time.”

5.  Yeah, the judge, attorneys, monitor, won’t know if there’s a recording until after the fact, despite the monitor wearing headphones and monitoring the recording.

6. Yeah, you can get a transcript back within a few weeks or sooner, if necessary.

7. Yeah, you have to pay someone to transcribe that tape, be it a transcriptionist, or a court reporter, who will probably charge you more just because you didn’t have them there in the first place and charge you the “rekeying” fee to have to sit there and rekey the job so they can edit it.

8. Yeah, a monitor can keep a note file of events that happened. But…

There is no way on this green Earth that a digital tape has been able to beat me on the turnaround and give the client a transcript within hours of an all-day hearing when I’m writing realtime and a scopist is right behind me; and,
 
There is no way that anyone is going to be able to get a rough draft of the proceedings immediately at the end of the day; and,
 
There is no way that a scopist can sit right there behind a digital tape and start editing it like they can sit behind me and scope on-site right now; and,

There is no way that, in a depo, an attorney is going to get a transcript within an hour or so of the depo; and,

There is no way an attorney in a depo can leave the depo with a rough draft either printed or emailed to him at that moment.

When my clients want to “See it Write Now,” they call me to the job and not Sony or Memorex. “Is it a court reporter or is it Memorex?”  It’s a Court Reporter every single time
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