Let's Write Steno!

THIS EPISODE IS A LIST OF THE MOST COMMON WORDS THAT START WITH THE LETTER C. IF YOU CAN WRITE ALL THESE WORDS, THEN GIVE YOURSELF A PAT ON THE BACK! IF YOU CAN'T, DON'T FRET! JUST PRACTICE AND YOU'LL BE A PRO IN NO TIME. THANKS FOR LISTENING AND SUPPORTING! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST BECAUSE THAT LET'S ME KNOW THAT YOU'RE LISTENING AND YOU ARE ENJOYING THE CONTENT. 

PEACE, LOVE AND STENO 

THIS EPISODE IS A LIST OF THE MOST COMMON WORDS THAT START WITH THE LETTER C. IF YOU CAN WRITE ALL THESE WORDS, THEN GIVE YOURSELF A PAT ON THE BACK! IF YOU CAN'T, DON'T FRET! JUST PRACTICE AND YOU'LL BE A PRO IN NO TIME. THANKS FOR LISTENING AND SUPPORTING! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST BECAUSE THAT LET'S ME KNOW THAT YOU'RE LISTENING AND YOU ARE ENJOYING THE CONTENT. 

PEACE, LOVE AND STENO 

THIS EPISODE WARNS OF SACRIFICING LEGIBILITY OF NOTES FOR SPEED AND THE PITFALLS OF DOING SO IN THE STYLE OF DICTATION. THIS DICTATION IS NOT READ AT ANY PARTICULAR SPEED, BUT READ MORE FOR ACCURACY PRIMARILY. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING. IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBSCRIBED OR LEFT ME A MESSAGE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DO SO. WE ARE ON SEASON 3 AND I HOPE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING THE PODCAST. ALL SUGGESTIONS ON MATERIAL IS WELCOME. YOU CAN ALSO SUPPORT BY CLICKING ON LISTENER SUPPORT ON ANCHOR.FM.COM @ LET'S WRITE STENO. 

CALL TO ACTION!  PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND HELP ME REACH MY GOAL OF 1000 SUBS! THANK YOU!

SANDRA'S STENO & SHORTHAND DICTATION

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FROM PRACTICAL POINTERS FOR SHORTHAND STUDENTS PG 22

DON'T SACRIFICE LEGIBILITY FOR SPEED TRANSCRIPT 

THOSE WHO KNOW LITTLE TO NOTHING ABOUT SHORTHAND, FREQUENTLY ASK THE STENOGRAPHER, "HOW FAST CAN YOU WRITE?" AND THE SHORTHAND WRITER WILL CARELESSLY REPLY, " OH! ABOUT 150 to  200 WORDS PER MINUTE. "  WHENEVER YOU HEAR SOMEONE TALK LIKE THAT, PUT YOUR HAND IN YOUR POCKET, PULL OUT ALL THE SPACE CASH YOU HAVE,  LAY IT ON THE TABLE AND SAY:  ALL THIS AND MORE WILL BE YOURS IF YOU WILL KINDLY SIT DOWN AND WRITE IN SHORTHAND WHAT I SHALL DICTATE, AT THE RATE YOU STATE, 150 WORDS PER MINUTE, AND THEN GIVE ME AN ACCURATE TRANSCRIPT OF WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN. THEN YOU WILL SEE THE RAPID ONE HIDE HIS DIMINISHED HEAD AND VANISH IN HIS SHELL, AS HE FAINTLY REPLIES, "I USED TO BE ABLE TO WRITE AT THAT SPEED WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL."

NEVER BOAST YOUR SPEED! AIM FOR ACCURACY AND LEGIBILITY FIRST AND SPEED WILL FOLLOW SPEED AS APPLIED TO SHORTHAND IS A COMPARATIVE TERM. EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE MATTER DICTATED. WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE, IT IS TRUE, MAY BE WRITTEN AT GREAT SPEED, OR SPEED MAY BE ATTAINED BY PRACTICING THE SAME MATTER OVER AND OVER AGAIN, BUT SUCH TESTS DO NOT REPRESENT THE ACTUAL, REGULAR, NORMAL RATE AT WHICH THE STUDENT CAN WRITE. 

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS SO RICH IN WORDS THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE THE MOST SKILLFUL  WRITER OF SHORTHAND IN THE WORLD, SLACKEN WHEN WORDS ARE DICTATED THAT ARE NOT IN HIS VOCABULARY. HE HAS TO THINK OF SHORTHAND FORMS, AND IN DOING SO HESITATES, AND HENCE THE SPEED IS DIMINISHED

TO ILLUSTRATE A CASE IN POINT: SUPPOSE A SELF-MADE MAN MAKES A SPEECH, AND ALLUDING HIS FATHER'S EARLY LIFE, SAYS: "MY FATHER WAS A FARM LABORER AND USED A PICK AND SHOVEL "  THIS IS EASY LANGUAGE, READILY TAKEN DOWN, BUT SUPPOSE FOR A MOMENT THAT YOU HAD TO REPORT THE SPEECH OF A HIGHLY EDUCATED BOSTON LADY WHOSE FATHER WAS, BY A STRANGE COINCIDENCE, ALSO SELF-MADE AND FORMERLY USED A PICK AND SHOVEL. SHE WOULD NOT USE THE SAME LANGUAGE IN CONVEYING THIS INFORMATION, BUT WHATEVER SHE SAID, YOU, AS THE SHORTHAND WRITER, WOULD HAVE TO RECORD VERBATIM SHE MIGHT MURMUR SOMETHING LIKE THIS, "MY ESTIMABLE AND VENERABLE, PATERNAL, ANTECEDENT WAS INDEFATIGABLE, MANIPULATOR OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS."

IN TAKING WORDS LIKE THESE, ONE'S BOASTED SPEED WOULD DWINDLE CONSIDERABLY. DO NOT THEN BOAST OF YOUR SPEED, BUT AIM FOR LEGIBILITY AND ACCURACY, SPEED WILL COME GRADUALLY. WHEN YOU HEAR AN UNCOMMON OR UNFAMILIAR WORD, PRACTICE THE OUTLINE OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL IT CAN BE WRITTEN FLUENTLY. THEN FIND OTHERS AND DEAL WITH THEM N THE SAME WAY,  NEVER WRITE YOUR SHORTHAND CHARACTERS IN A WAY THAT WILL IMPERIL THEIR LEGIBILITY. 

THIS EPISODE WARNS OF SACRIFICING LEGIBILITY OF NOTES FOR SPEED AND THE PITFALLS OF DOING SO IN THE STYLE OF DICTATION. THIS DICTATION IS NOT READ AT ANY PARTICULAR SPEED, BUT READ MORE FOR ACCURACY PRIMARILY. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING. IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBSCRIBED OR LEFT ME A MESSAGE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DO SO. WE ARE ON SEASON 3 AND I HOPE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING THE PODCAST. ALL SUGGESTIONS ON MATERIAL IS WELCOME. YOU CAN ALSO SUPPORT BY CLICKING ON LISTENER SUPPORT ON ANCHOR.FM.COM @ LET'S WRITE STENO. 

CALL TO ACTION!  PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND HELP ME REACH MY GOAL OF 1000 SUBS! THANK YOU!

SANDRA'S STENO & SHORTHAND DICTATION

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6sTTPYgBBnKyaQdzarsXgw?view_as=subscriber

FROM PRACTICAL POINTERS FOR SHORTHAND STUDENTS PG 22

DON'T SACRIFICE LEGIBILITY FOR SPEED TRANSCRIPT 

THOSE WHO KNOW LITTLE TO NOTHING ABOUT SHORTHAND, FREQUENTLY ASK THE STENOGRAPHER, "HOW FAST CAN YOU WRITE?" AND THE SHORTHAND WRITER WILL CARELESSLY REPLY, " OH! ABOUT 150 to  200 WORDS PER MINUTE. "  WHENEVER YOU HEAR SOMEONE TALK LIKE THAT, PUT YOUR HAND IN YOUR POCKET, PULL OUT ALL THE SPACE CASH YOU HAVE,  LAY IT ON THE TABLE AND SAY:  ALL THIS AND MORE WILL BE YOURS IF YOU WILL KINDLY SIT DOWN AND WRITE IN SHORTHAND WHAT I SHALL DICTATE, AT THE RATE YOU STATE, 150 WORDS PER MINUTE, AND THEN GIVE ME AN ACCURATE TRANSCRIPT OF WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN. THEN YOU WILL SEE THE RAPID ONE HIDE HIS DIMINISHED HEAD AND VANISH IN HIS SHELL, AS HE FAINTLY REPLIES, "I USED TO BE ABLE TO WRITE AT THAT SPEED WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL."

NEVER BOAST YOUR SPEED! AIM FOR ACCURACY AND LEGIBILITY FIRST AND SPEED WILL FOLLOW SPEED AS APPLIED TO SHORTHAND IS A COMPARATIVE TERM. EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE MATTER DICTATED. WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE, IT IS TRUE, MAY BE WRITTEN AT GREAT SPEED, OR SPEED MAY BE ATTAINED BY PRACTICING THE SAME MATTER OVER AND OVER AGAIN, BUT SUCH TESTS DO NOT REPRESENT THE ACTUAL, REGULAR, NORMAL RATE AT WHICH THE STUDENT CAN WRITE. 

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS SO RICH IN WORDS THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE THE MOST SKILLFUL  WRITER OF SHORTHAND IN THE WORLD, SLACKEN WHEN WORDS ARE DICTATED THAT ARE NOT IN HIS VOCABULARY. HE HAS TO THINK OF SHORTHAND FORMS, AND IN DOING SO HESITATES, AND HENCE THE SPEED IS DIMINISHED

TO ILLUSTRATE A CASE IN POINT: SUPPOSE A SELF-MADE MAN MAKES A SPEECH, AND ALLUDING HIS FATHER'S EARLY LIFE, SAYS: "MY FATHER WAS A FARM LABORER AND USED A PICK AND SHOVEL "  THIS IS EASY LANGUAGE, READILY TAKEN DOWN, BUT SUPPOSE FOR A MOMENT THAT YOU HAD TO REPORT THE SPEECH OF A HIGHLY EDUCATED BOSTON LADY WHOSE FATHER WAS, BY A STRANGE COINCIDENCE, ALSO SELF-MADE AND FORMERLY USED A PICK AND SHOVEL. SHE WOULD NOT USE THE SAME LANGUAGE IN CONVEYING THIS INFORMATION, BUT WHATEVER SHE SAID, YOU, AS THE SHORTHAND WRITER, WOULD HAVE TO RECORD VERBATIM SHE MIGHT MURMUR SOMETHING LIKE THIS, "MY ESTIMABLE AND VENERABLE, PATERNAL, ANTECEDENT WAS INDEFATIGABLE, MANIPULATOR OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS."

IN TAKING WORDS LIKE THESE, ONE'S BOASTED SPEED WOULD DWINDLE CONSIDERABLY. DO NOT THEN BOAST OF YOUR SPEED, BUT AIM FOR LEGIBILITY AND ACCURACY, SPEED WILL COME GRADUALLY. WHEN YOU HEAR AN UNCOMMON OR UNFAMILIAR WORD, PRACTICE THE OUTLINE OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL IT CAN BE WRITTEN FLUENTLY. THEN FIND OTHERS AND DEAL WITH THEM N THE SAME WAY,  NEVER WRITE YOUR SHORTHAND CHARACTERS IN A WAY THAT WILL IMPERIL THEIR LEGIBILITY. 

This episode consists of medical dictation in the form of letters from one doctor to another on the Influenza outbreak of 1918. It was also known as the Spanish Flu and very similar to the Covid -19 as you will hear. It is not read at any particular speed to allow everyone to be able to practice. This is meant to improve your medical terminology and writing these words in shorthand. Please pay attention to your accuracy and not speed. Thanks for listening and supporting. Transcript is below as well as the words you may have trouble with. 

influenza, poorer, preventing, remedies, director, infectious, disposal, discharges, prevention, formulate, transmissible, contagious, disease, bacillus, secretions, symptoms, catarrhs, indefinite, restricted, realized, sputum, cuspidor, carbolic, burned, soiled 

Dr. C.S. Kimball,  347 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago Illinois

Dear Doctor, 

In view of the present epidemic of influenza, I propose to issue a small circular to reach the poorer classes in the community with information as to the best methods of preventing grippe. I should be pleased to have any suggestions from you on the subject. I desire to make the circular short, and not to suggest any remedies or methods of treatment; the only advice in that connection would be to have the patient placed in bed and to send for a doctor.  Yours very truly, 

Dr. Frank A. Field, Director, 

Bureau of Health, 

Chicago, ILL 

Apart from general laws of hygiene and of hygiene of infections as to disposal of discharges, etc, I know of no mode of prevention. Your stall can formulate such rules better than I.  Yours sincerely, 

Dear Doctor, 

Influenza is a transmissible or contagious disease. The influenza bacillus is present in the secretions from the upper air passages, including the nose. It persists in many cases after the active symptoms subside, and probably in all cases in which post-influenzal catarrhs occur for an indefinite time.  The spread of the disease would be much restricted if patients suffering from it fully realized that it is spread by means of the sputum, and took proper precautions to prevent its transmission. These consist in the use of a spit-cup or cuspidor containing a 5% solution of carbolic acid; holding rags or gauze in front of the mouth and nose during coughing and sneezing, such cloths being immediately burned; and the boiling of handkerchiefs, sheets, night-clothes, and other garments soiled with the discharges, for at least half an hour. Yours very truly, 

This episode consists of medical dictation in the form of letters from one doctor to another on the Influenza outbreak of 1918. It was also known as the Spanish Flu and very similar to the Covid -19 as you will hear. It is not read at any particular speed to allow everyone to be able to practice. This is meant to improve your medical terminology and writing these words in shorthand. Please pay attention to your accuracy and not speed. Thanks for listening and supporting. Transcript is below as well as the words you may have trouble with. 

influenza, poorer, preventing, remedies, director, infectious, disposal, discharges, prevention, formulate, transmissible, contagious, disease, bacillus, secretions, symptoms, catarrhs, indefinite, restricted, realized, sputum, cuspidor, carbolic, burned, soiled 

Dr. C.S. Kimball,  347 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago Illinois

Dear Doctor, 

In view of the present epidemic of influenza, I propose to issue a small circular to reach the poorer classes in the community with information as to the best methods of preventing grippe. I should be pleased to have any suggestions from you on the subject. I desire to make the circular short, and not to suggest any remedies or methods of treatment; the only advice in that connection would be to have the patient placed in bed and to send for a doctor.  Yours very truly, 

Dr. Frank A. Field, Director, 

Bureau of Health, 

Chicago, ILL 

Apart from general laws of hygiene and of hygiene of infections as to disposal of discharges, etc, I know of no mode of prevention. Your stall can formulate such rules better than I.  Yours sincerely, 

Dear Doctor, 

Influenza is a transmissible or contagious disease. The influenza bacillus is present in the secretions from the upper air passages, including the nose. It persists in many cases after the active symptoms subside, and probably in all cases in which post-influenzal catarrhs occur for an indefinite time.  The spread of the disease would be much restricted if patients suffering from it fully realized that it is spread by means of the sputum, and took proper precautions to prevent its transmission. These consist in the use of a spit-cup or cuspidor containing a 5% solution of carbolic acid; holding rags or gauze in front of the mouth and nose during coughing and sneezing, such cloths being immediately burned; and the boiling of handkerchiefs, sheets, night-clothes, and other garments soiled with the discharges, for at least half an hour. Yours very truly, 

THIS PODCAST BEGINS WITH A 5 MINUTE WARM UP. THEN I READ ORGANIZATION OF FOREIGN TRADE THREE TIMES FOR GREAT PRACTICE. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TODAY!  TO SUPPORT THIS PODCAST CLICK ON THE LISTENER SUPPORT. YOU CAN ALSO FIND ME ON YouTube AT SANDRA'S STENOGRAPHY & SHORTHAND DICTATION. THE LINK IS BELOW. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6sTTPYgBBnKyaQdzarsXgw

STENO DUCHESS 

FROM DICTATION FOR MODERN BUSINESS 

ARTICLE 92 PAGE 323 

THIS PODCAST BEGINS WITH A 5 MINUTE WARM UP. THEN I READ ORGANIZATION OF FOREIGN TRADE THREE TIMES FOR GREAT PRACTICE. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TODAY!  TO SUPPORT THIS PODCAST CLICK ON THE LISTENER SUPPORT. YOU CAN ALSO FIND ME ON YouTube AT SANDRA'S STENOGRAPHY & SHORTHAND DICTATION. THE LINK IS BELOW. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6sTTPYgBBnKyaQdzarsXgw

STENO DUCHESS 

FROM DICTATION FOR MODERN BUSINESS 

ARTICLE 92 PAGE 323 

THIS DICTATION IS LITERARY @ 100 WPM. THE FIRST DICTATION IS THE SLOCUM DISASTER FOLLOWED BY PURE-FOODS. PLEASE DONATE, IF YOU CAN BY GOING TO ANCHOR.FM AND CLICKING LISTENER SUPPORT. IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO DONATE MONETARILY, YOU SUPPORT BY LISTENING. EITHER WAY, I SAY THANK YOU!  YOU CAN FIND MORE DICTATION ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL, SANDRA'S STENOGRAPHY

PEACE, LOVE AND STENO 

STENO DUCHESS 

Transcript of the General Slocum Disaster 

The steamer General Slocum left her wharf early on that fateful morning, freighted with her human cargo, and started on her trip up the East River. It was a beautiful summer’s day. The steamer was crowded; all her flags were gayly flying; merry music was playing; happy children singing and laughing; parents and friends talking over the topics of the day, and as the steamer wended her her way all on board was joy and happiness and merriment. She had not proceeded far up the East River, however, when the terrible cries and confusion that beggar description, and with a startling rudeness that can not be pictured in words, a frightful scene ensued, too horrible for narration. Suffice it for me to say that in all the annals of our country nothing like it ever occurred before, and I pray to God that nothing like it will ever happen again.

The captain of the steamer lost his head, as so often happens under similar circumstances, and instead of immediately beaching the steamer, as he should have done, he ran her up the river several miles in the teeth of the fanning wind, where she finally grounded near North Brothers Island, a charred and blackened wreck. Oh, the pitiable scenes that then ensued! It is too terrible to contemplate even now.

PURE FOODS 

It is recognized now that the welfare of people and their ability to accomplish something for themselves and their families and for the public depends, to a very large extent, upon proper nutrition for their bodies. The experiences of this Government Panama shows conclusively that as soon as men can secure proper food in sufficient quantities they are capable of doing much more and efficient work and become far better and more valuable citizens. But it is needless to go to the Tropic to ascertain the truth of such a self-evident fact.  One great source of the incapacity, poverty, suffering, and degradation in our own land, in both cities and country, has been the imperfect nutrition of  body and brain, caused by deficient quality of quantity of foods.

Nearly all the civilized governments realize this fact, and have enacted laws, more or less stringent, designed to correct, so far as possible, the evils of this adulteration and deterioration of foods. The majority of the States in the Union have laws, more of less wise, and more or less well enforced, which of the States had good pure-food laws, well administered, and adapted to the varying conditions of their localities, there would be little need for a national pure-food law for interstate commerce.

THIS DICTATION IS LITERARY @ 100 WPM. THE FIRST DICTATION IS THE SLOCUM DISASTER FOLLOWED BY PURE-FOODS. PLEASE DONATE, IF YOU CAN BY GOING TO ANCHOR.FM AND CLICKING LISTENER SUPPORT. IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO DONATE MONETARILY, YOU SUPPORT BY LISTENING. EITHER WAY, I SAY THANK YOU!  YOU CAN FIND MORE DICTATION ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL, SANDRA'S STENOGRAPHY

PEACE, LOVE AND STENO 

STENO DUCHESS 

Transcript of the General Slocum Disaster 

The steamer General Slocum left her wharf early on that fateful morning, freighted with her human cargo, and started on her trip up the East River. It was a beautiful summer’s day. The steamer was crowded; all her flags were gayly flying; merry music was playing; happy children singing and laughing; parents and friends talking over the topics of the day, and as the steamer wended her her way all on board was joy and happiness and merriment. She had not proceeded far up the East River, however, when the terrible cries and confusion that beggar description, and with a startling rudeness that can not be pictured in words, a frightful scene ensued, too horrible for narration. Suffice it for me to say that in all the annals of our country nothing like it ever occurred before, and I pray to God that nothing like it will ever happen again.

The captain of the steamer lost his head, as so often happens under similar circumstances, and instead of immediately beaching the steamer, as he should have done, he ran her up the river several miles in the teeth of the fanning wind, where she finally grounded near North Brothers Island, a charred and blackened wreck. Oh, the pitiable scenes that then ensued! It is too terrible to contemplate even now.

PURE FOODS 

It is recognized now that the welfare of people and their ability to accomplish something for themselves and their families and for the public depends, to a very large extent, upon proper nutrition for their bodies. The experiences of this Government Panama shows conclusively that as soon as men can secure proper food in sufficient quantities they are capable of doing much more and efficient work and become far better and more valuable citizens. But it is needless to go to the Tropic to ascertain the truth of such a self-evident fact.  One great source of the incapacity, poverty, suffering, and degradation in our own land, in both cities and country, has been the imperfect nutrition of  body and brain, caused by deficient quality of quantity of foods.

Nearly all the civilized governments realize this fact, and have enacted laws, more or less stringent, designed to correct, so far as possible, the evils of this adulteration and deterioration of foods. The majority of the States in the Union have laws, more of less wise, and more or less well enforced, which of the States had good pure-food laws, well administered, and adapted to the varying conditions of their localities, there would be little need for a national pure-food law for interstate commerce.