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| AlphaDormante | Dec 19 2012, 04:52 AM Post #1 |
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Warning! The first section of this post is educational. Skip to the second half for the fun part So I've been going to college to become a court reporter for just over a year now. For those of you who don't know, here in America there is a profession for people to sit inside a courtroom with a little typewriter-like machine and record everything that's being said (if they do this in other countries as well I have no idea). We have to type at the speed of people talking...which on average fluctuates anywhere from 140 to 200 words per minute. Consider that the average person types 40 WPM on the computer and know that yes, we are insane. Needless to say, we have to take a lot of shortcuts. Instead of typing words one letter at a time, we type the whole word at once. For example, on a computer it would take you three strokes to spell out "d-o-g". We just hit all three letters at the same time and get the word. But in order to use these shortcuts, we have to do some really weird things with our letters, like combining certain letters together to make new letters. Here's what our keyboard setup looks like. Using the example above, we use "TK" for the letter "D"...so in steno, the word "dog" would be spelled "TKOG". What's that, you say? Steno sucks and is a terrible thing for a human being to invent? I know! I spent half a year learning this crap! But I know it now and I might as well put it to use. --- So now for the fun part! If you didn't read that section above I'll give you the simple version: I know a crazy courtroom language and I can translate stuff into it for you 'cause I'm bored. Wanna know how your name would look on a court transcript if you ever went to court? Are you dying to have a passage from the Twilight novels translated into Steno and have it make even less sense than usual? Are you curious about how to insult people in a language they almost certainly won't understand? I don't know why you would want any of these things, but I am here to provide them anyway. Send me a block of text and I shall blow your mind. (Be sure to put 'em in quotes or something so I know what exactly you want translated!) You can also ask me questions about stenography and court reporting in general, of course...though god knows why you'd want to do that! Love, AL TPA DOR MAUN TAE ...that is, AlphaDormante. Edited by AlphaDormante, Dec 19 2012, 04:58 AM.
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| Penguins4Freedom | Dec 19 2012, 08:41 AM Post #2 |
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The Lord of Misrule & The Abbot of Unreason
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Translate: HELP I'M TRAPPED INSIDE THE BODY OF A COURTROOM STENOGRAPHER |
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| AlphaDormante | Dec 19 2012, 11:12 AM Post #3 |
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Spoiler: click to toggle The fun part is seeing words that are actually in English
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| Penguins4Freedom | Dec 19 2012, 12:21 PM Post #4 |
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The Lord of Misrule & The Abbot of Unreason
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Awesome. With this Facebook status, I'll be the talk of the town. ... It's a small town. |
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| PhoenixM23 | Dec 19 2012, 06:16 PM Post #5 |
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"I'm living large in a mirror, by the sea, inside a rock, under the eagle's bed."
Edited by PhoenixM23, Dec 19 2012, 06:17 PM.
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| Huzzahfortimelines | Dec 19 2012, 06:45 PM Post #6 |
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I am a sheep, hear me bark. |
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| AlphaDormante | Dec 19 2012, 11:12 PM Post #7 |
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Spoiler: click to toggle
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| PhoenixM23 | Dec 23 2012, 07:52 PM Post #8 |
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Translate that
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| AlphaDormante | Jan 10 2013, 08:04 PM Post #9 |
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Not a chance, bub.
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