I am getting really good at fingerspelling "mastectomy." I’ve got it defined 16 different ways in my dictionary. I’ve done about 4 hours of dictionary maintenance today. First I went through and fixed all the "-y" suffixes that had asterisks in them, like –ty, -ly, etc. That was 2500 entries. There were another 1200 I didn’t have to fix because I never got around to adding the asterisks to them in the first place. That took up most of the time. I was going to delete all the asterisks I added, but I couldn’t figure out a way to find them for anything else, so I guess I’ll just have to do those as I find them.
Then I decided I ought to get the rest of my prefixes and suffixes in order before I went through more of the book. According to the book, you’re only supposed to have "true" prefixes and suffixes defined as such, that is, ones that attach to root words that can stand alone. Using the example from the book, stuff like "URE" isn’t supposed to get defined as a suffix because it's really just a word part and it might mess up other stuff.
I decided I should delete all those extra prefixes and suffixes I have in there. I spent about an hour and a half going through the suffixes. I decided to keep all the ones that are words, like "field" and "land" and whatnot, because that's how I make compound words, by adding asterisks to them, and I’m going to keep doing that. That’s how I’ve always done it.
I decided I should delete all those extra prefixes and suffixes I have in there. I spent about an hour and a half going through the suffixes. I decided to keep all the ones that are words, like "field" and "land" and whatnot, because that's how I make compound words, by adding asterisks to them, and I’m going to keep doing that. That’s how I’ve always done it.
I also decided to keep my special alphabets. I have a different way to write –by, -bi, -bee, -be, -bey, etc. for all the consonants. That'll help with proper names and whatnot. So, after I got through about 1300 of the suffixes, it occurred to me that I really do use a lot of those "word parts," and I think real captioners do, too, so despite what the VITAC book says, I might want to leave them in. And I might have just wasted all of that time.
Ever since one of my theory classes, I’ve had a table of 50 briefs I want to learn that I practice every day, either to memorize them (which usually doesn’t take long) or to get the fingering down. For a while now, I haven’t been adding any new ones to the list because I wanted to incorporate the ways I’ve been changing my writing into the table so I could start actually learning them.
I guess it’s a good thing I never got around to it, since I decided to unlearn that stuff anyaway. Today I finally added a couple of of the "-y" suffixes to it: ten words each from –dy and –ry. Then I remembered that I wanted to put the Phoenix-inspired changes I made to integrated endings in there first, so I had to figure out what to put in. I wound up doing ten words each that end with –ling and –ned, since I have to remember to stroke the endings on those separately now.
Ever since one of my theory classes, I’ve had a table of 50 briefs I want to learn that I practice every day, either to memorize them (which usually doesn’t take long) or to get the fingering down. For a while now, I haven’t been adding any new ones to the list because I wanted to incorporate the ways I’ve been changing my writing into the table so I could start actually learning them.
I guess it’s a good thing I never got around to it, since I decided to unlearn that stuff anyaway. Today I finally added a couple of of the "-y" suffixes to it: ten words each from –dy and –ry. Then I remembered that I wanted to put the Phoenix-inspired changes I made to integrated endings in there first, so I had to figure out what to put in. I wound up doing ten words each that end with –ling and –ned, since I have to remember to stroke the endings on those separately now.
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