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   Hi, Paul Quinn! ->Alexander Koryagin   
   I read your message from 03.12.2019 00:42   
      
    AK>> But stenographers and typists do different job. A stenographer   
    AK>> doesn't type his texts; they write speeches down by hand using the   
    AK>> special stenographic symbols and tricks. The only problem is that   
    AK>> nobody can read their scripts. ;-)   
      
    PQ> Neither can I. That's why they - did- type from their own notes! I   
    PQ> don't know who told you that they didn't. Did Ardith? Naughty. ;)   
      
   I always thought that they didn't type their scripts because actually nobody   
   needs the information they write down. ;-) IMHO, stenography is like the black   
   box recorder on a plane. Just in case. ;-)   
      
    PQ> Although the 'chicken scratchings' form that steno notes may start   
    PQ> by using a standard script, often the person would insert their own   
    PQ> symbology to account for in-house terms and abbreviations, for   
    PQ> example.   
      
   Once I watched a comedy in which the signer (translator) did his job, but the   
   speaker suddenly started speaking in a very non-standard, informal way. The   
   signer was forced desperately invent funny ways to deliver the speech to the   
   audience. It was very funny.   
      
    PQ> It's similar to the medical field where there is a notation form   
    PQ> for even the specification of patients' medication. Ask a nurse,   
    PQ> pharmacist or doctor (? maybe) how their 'shorthand' looks for a   
    PQ> typical example for: "1 pill, twice a day". (I'm counting on   
    PQ> Russian equivalent folk doing the same, of course... /fingers   
    PQ> crossed/.)   
      
   Recently I went to the drugstore and the druggist studied a long  time what   
   was written on my prescription. Then he searched it in the Internet and in   
   five minutes we got the correct name. ;)   
      
    PQ> The separation of typing duties from stenography was only possible   
    PQ> with the introduction of dictatorial equipment. History lesson,   
    PQ> finished. Thank you for listening. :)   
      
   Well, also I delivered what I wanted. :-)   
      
   Bye, Paul!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2019   
      
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