I am doing pretty well on my new minute already. I wrote it once at 250 today, and I’m regularly getting to 214. If only the entire piece could be as easy as the last sentence. I came up with a brief for breast cancer: BRA*RNS. At first fingerspelling my dictionary entries was nearly impossible, but it’s getting easier now.
I’m really concerned about fingerspelling in general, though, because although I’m great at spelling and grammar, I’ve always had a hard time spelling things out loud without writing them down and reading out the letters, and fingerspelling is a lot like that. When I started trying to add asterisks to all of my suffixes, I didn’t do "-er" because *ER was a prefix for me. Now, though, I sometimes go to write it, and "-ers," with an asterisk, so maybe I’m starting to absorb that idea more.
Do you use AR/OR/ER for endings (like "contributor, upholster, worker, cheddar (bad example)?") In general, how do you do these types of endings, except when they are tucked in common words (like "paper")?
ReplyDeleteI try to tuck them when I can remember to, but since I was taught not to tuck them for almost two years, I often don’t. –er I did as ER, but since I’m trying to remember to write all of my second strokes with asterisks, I should be doing *ER, so I’m transitioning through that right now.
ReplyDelete-or endings I usually add the consonant to the second stroke, so contributor would be KRIBT/TO*R, emperor is EFRP/RO*R, etc. I do the same thing with –ar, since StenEd teaches that AR should only be used to start words. RAI/DA*R, LUM/BA*R, etc.