Start Date: August 7, 2011
Finish Date: Late August 2011
I officially made it through lesson 10 in late August 2011. However, during this lesson, I picked up a book called "Fashionable Realtime Toolbox". Just like the CRAH program, the book came highly recommended and I could not find anyone who said a bad thing about it. The book takes you through various elements testing your writing theory for realtime "air-tightness" (homonym conflicts, word boundary conflicts, etc). I agree with the book that all theories and writers will have at least some hairline cracks.
I spent the remainder of 2011 going through the book and CRAH theory. I have made changes which I think make it better suited for realtime. Now I going back through the program with the modified theory.
Some may say: how can go through CRAH with a different theory. To me, CRAH is more than a theory, it is an organized PROGRAM that has theory, speed building, academic material, etc.
Some notable changes I made:
1. Steno Outline for a word is much more spelling dependent.
2. Added kn- (I use TKPH) to eliminate conflicts like knit and nit; knight and night.
3. Added -y (I use FPL). This eliminates many conflicts.
4. Added -w (I use FBG). This eliminates many conflicts, e.g., so, sow, and sew.
Lately, I've been looking into the layout keyboard. It occurred to me one day that it seems like final N (-PB) is a bit misplaced on the keyboard layout. The letter is a somewhat frequent letter, so should it not be assigned it's own (single) key? Further, Ward Stone Ireland modified the keyboard layout for his next stenograph in 1917, which never caught on. Theoretically, you can use any key or combination of keys to represent any letter, combination of letter, word, or phrase. This question is: what is the most efficient keyboard layout?
I officially made it through lesson 10 in late August 2011. However, during this lesson, I picked up a book called "Fashionable Realtime Toolbox". Just like the CRAH program, the book came highly recommended and I could not find anyone who said a bad thing about it. The book takes you through various elements testing your writing theory for realtime "air-tightness" (homonym conflicts, word boundary conflicts, etc). I agree with the book that all theories and writers will have at least some hairline cracks.
I spent the remainder of 2011 going through the book and CRAH theory. I have made changes which I think make it better suited for realtime. Now I going back through the program with the modified theory.
Some may say: how can go through CRAH with a different theory. To me, CRAH is more than a theory, it is an organized PROGRAM that has theory, speed building, academic material, etc.
Some notable changes I made:
1. Steno Outline for a word is much more spelling dependent.
2. Added kn- (I use TKPH) to eliminate conflicts like knit and nit; knight and night.
3. Added -y (I use FPL). This eliminates many conflicts.
4. Added -w (I use FBG). This eliminates many conflicts, e.g., so, sow, and sew.
Lately, I've been looking into the layout keyboard. It occurred to me one day that it seems like final N (-PB) is a bit misplaced on the keyboard layout. The letter is a somewhat frequent letter, so should it not be assigned it's own (single) key? Further, Ward Stone Ireland modified the keyboard layout for his next stenograph in 1917, which never caught on. Theoretically, you can use any key or combination of keys to represent any letter, combination of letter, word, or phrase. This question is: what is the most efficient keyboard layout?
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