>>>>Morale of the story: a stenographer can lie for you, but can't help leaving subtle hints.
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>>>Imagine a steno with OUR finickitiness for grammar and language. They'd spend most of the time correcting and miss the gist of the address!
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>>At the MVP Summit last fall, they had closed captioning for the opening session. At one point, Linux was rendered as "Lynn yucks." <bg>
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>>There were some other great gaffes in that transcription, but I can't remember them now.
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>>Tamar
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>I remember when I first tried the speech recog. s/w on my new 'puter a few years back. I spent AGES "teaching" it but, in the end, with my accent, it always came out with gibberish :-)
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>Terry

And not just software. Yesterday evening I had an appointment with the dental hygenist for my regular scraping. Her name is Rowena. Anyway, when I got there, I checked in at the front desk and let the receptionist know I was there. She asked me, "Eleanor know you're here?". I looked at her with a puzzled expression, so she repeated, "Eleanor know you're here?" I was still puzzled because first of all, I don't know anyone named Eleanor, and secondly, figuring she must be someone in the dental office, I couldn't figure out why anyone would think I'd know if she knew I'd arrived. So, calling upon my fine grasp of the subtle nuances of the English language, I looked at her and said, "Huh?". She repeated it one more time, but this time it sounded like, "I'll let her know you're here." And there was peace on my bit of earth once again.