stenography

i haven’t been learning steno for very long, all things considered. i’ve been assured that it usually takes about 2 years to reach the 200wpm high that most people are able to achieve, and it might take a bit longer for me since i’ve been a little lax on the practice. still, i’ve thought about it a lot.

[things to talk about:

• even though i’m still not typing all that fast it feels more like talking than qwerty typing ever did, and that’s pretty cool.
• it’s really nice getting better at a new skill, and seeing work i put in pay off.
• it’s interesting how in being efficient it mirrors that thing about the english writing system where the most common words are the most likely to have a non-phonetic spelling/brief. this is just a sensible way to do this kind of thing it seems.
• it’s interesting how it’s sort of. a writing system that produces another, different writing system. i suppose this is the same way it was for most systems of stenography, but now with computer guys, the process of conversion from the raw steno to regular english orthography is instant.
• it’s a little bit more than just a different keyboard layout but i can see why people would process it like that.
• i want to use one that has a real paper tape i think…]