I have friends here in ND who say it too.

• Ebonic speaking dictators should be - sm
  • I must apologize - OP
    • OP, I don't see any need to apologize! - Hayseed
  • people, we see many complaints of dictators - this is no different and not racist - no message
  • Um, what difference does it make how - Me
    • OP did not use slang; you did (honky) - are you trying to start trouble? - n/m
    • Thanks "Me" - That's why it's offensive! (sm) - Squirrel
      • there was no prejudice in OP post - what are you talking about? nm
      • *Ebonics* refers to the street slang, etc. (often heard in -sm - ESL in the USA
        • I meant *comparing*, not *referring* ! - nm - ESL in the USA
      • Exactly - Me
    • Ebonics: Not a black thing or white thing. (sm) - Hayseed
      • Right as usual Hayseed! And what about British dialects - sm - ESL in the USA
      • I beg to differ Hayseed - Me
      • Why would anyone want to learn it??? - May I ask?
        • They want to understand the culture. - mtstudent
          • Thanks - that makes sense. - May I ask?
      • I've heard it used in derogatory terms (sm) - Squirrel
        • We have English lessons here at my home - Sandra
          • Not racist at all - a very well written post. - nm
  • That's very rude and offensive to many people (nm) - Squirrel
    • Agree. - sm
      • I am so against ebonics and I live in the south - Sandra
    • What is offended is my hearing! - Janie
      • Makes you wonder how they passed grade school grammar. No it is not acceptable. - EFL MT
    • I don't see why it should be. - EFL MT
      • Well, you know, there is always one - sm
        • You are mistaken - Me
          • Read my post above, very racist myself - Sandra
          • OP did not use slang above; you did above(honky) - is that hypocritical? - n/m
            • You Could Say "Me" is the Pot Calling the Kettle Black. - Amanda
          • You are so wrong and that's what is wrong with this - sm
          • "Me" - you have such a way with words! (sm) - Squirrel
        • No, I guess it depends on where you live (sm) - Squirrel
    • Why? - sm
      • "stating that people have a poor grasp of the English language anymore. " - Does that mean nowadays?
        • What do you not understand and why hate - Lynn
          • It does not mean anything such as you are saying. - 50, thank you
          • I think you have no clue, here. Just what are you talking about? LOL - SM
            • my pet peeve - Margaret
              • I hate it too. Did you know it is now classified as a word? - wow
        • I think it is a Pennsylvania thing -my friend use to say it. - nm
          • I certainly is a PA thing. - PAMT~MDM
            • I have friends here in ND who say it too. - ND MT
            • It's a Hollywood phenomena, I'm convinced. - Hayseed
              • I was referring to the "anymore", not the ebonics. - nm
  • 100% with you, like someone - Janie
  • Another Dilbert fan here! Hail, Ebonia! :) nm - NM
    • What about malpractice cases? - mtstudent
      • Good point - nm

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I have been trying to locate some people form my old High School - Figured with all of you out there someone might know someone and pass this on. I went to Garrett Hign School during 1977 thru 1981.

Sonia Suppan Bugher and Carissa Babson Snyder

Lost track of them many years ago, and there are so many people looking for them now - we were all concerned when they disappeared. Last I heard Carissa was in NC and Sonia in Oklahoma. Tried classmates.com and theya r elisted as "missing" LOL. Who knows maybe they are MT's too.

I rarely take time off unless its an emergency, in fact its been a couple years, and not too long ago there was an emergency with my health.  My supervisor only told me she needed me on working asap, did not inquire about my health, wish me well or to get better.  Its just work work work...which seems kind of cold to me. 

When I worked for a local office and knew them for years, as for favors, meaning i'll work my fingers to the bone, settle for  getting no raises whatsoever, not complain, just give me work that i'm the most proficient at so we both win, like predominantly operative reports or maybe even psych. 

that I know from different places, clubs included, but that doesn't mean that I'm having an affair with any of them...male or female! Before I was married my best friend and I went to a particular club to dance...it was great exercise and more fun than going to a gym. I made several friends there who are strictly friends. We were all single, enjoyed each other's company, and liked to dance...nothing nasty ever went on. In fact, many times my male friends made it easy to shake men whose attention I didn't want. Sometimes people go out just because it is more fun than watching TV. Hubby and I went to the club a couple of weeks ago and I introduced him to people that I knew there. I would hate to think that because I introduced him to people that he would think I'm having an affair. I don't know if I'd be more hurt because he didn't trust me, or because he thought I was dumb enough to take him someplace and introduce him to someone I would have an affair with!

I would also hate to think that my husband would search my cell phone and check the numbers he didn't recognize. My son is in the military and at times his friends have called because they consider me a second mom or are trying to get in touch with my son. Nevermind that just about everyone has had someone call their phone and it has been a wrong number!

If someone gave me a real reason to check up on them, I probably would, but to check up on someone 'just to be sure' is insulting. If someone I care about can't come to me and talk rationally about their fears, then we don't have much of a relationship!

I am wondering if it's ME or if it's my kids' friends that's the problem.  I just can't stand barely any of them.  We have little sailors running around cussing, compulsive liars, thieves, two-faced "unfriends", blackmailers, anger management problems, slobs, and perverts running around here.  And the violent and graphically disgusting games these kids try to play.  Is this everywhere?  Or am I just overly sensitive?  Parents can't choose their kids' friends because the kids'll rebel against the control, right?  I just feel like I can't have anyone over here because I'm constantly correcting them and cleaning up after them.  They don't listen worth a darn anyway.  I certainly don't want my kids to go to their houses if these kids behave this badly here.

I tried going into details, but this post got so long.  I don't think it's our neighborhood either because we have to drive for playdates with some of these kids.  What, do we just attract the people with issues?  I try to tell myself that these are just kids or perhaps their home life isn't in line with the same value system as we have.  I try to be tolerant because some of these kids have had problems in their lives.  However, having problems is no excuse for bad behavior.  I'm no perfect prude and neither are my kids.  We've had our share of problems.  I also know I can't "shelter" my kids from the outisde world.  But geez, it's just ridiculous.  Whatever happened to the days when parents were parents and kids behaved?  Children should not be cussing, stealing and telling horrific stories of murder and incest.

To give you an example, one of these little punks even told the whole neighborhood that my husband and I were druggies and dealers.  We found out about it when our elderly neighbor came over and told us.  We've always been totally against drugs, not even experimenting with them when we were teens.  Plus, we both have to go through yearly drug screening tests at work, too.  What is with the world today?

7 years ago I worked in a clinic and lost the job when the clinic joined a larger physician group who outsourced transcription.  I went to work for the company they were using then.  With that change I almost doubled my income.  That MTSO later went out of business.  Ironically, now I work for the MTSO who currently has that account.  Some of my coworkers with the first company have gone to work for a large clinic in the area who has brought some MT work back in-house.  They took a cut in pay but have better benefits and much better hours.  I have found that you pretty much have to be in the right place at the right time, or know somebody.  The first clinic job I got was when I went to apply at the local hospital and the director at the hospital sent me over to the clinic.  Almost all of the opportunities I have gotten over the years have come from knowing someone.  Sometimes the best thing to do is to ask around.  I know a lot of transcriptionists in the area, and several people who work in clinics in the area.  This is where I get most of my leads.

Just have to vent a little...

I have several extended family members and friends who give the impression that "just typing" and getting to work from home translates to "waiting for a REAL job to come along."  I have tactfully tried to drop the hint that first of all, a Transcriptionist does way more than "just type," and I'm sure make more per hour than any of them, to no avail. 

Anybody else noticed this, too? 

Even with $10 a person and maybe some groceries or a gift item, it only takes a few people to make a difference. 

Seriously though, I have two friends with a lips and my nephew has a lisp, so I'm a lispterpreter.  This makes it much easier for MT, but try this:

1)  Get lots and lots of samples notes/reports.

2)  Hope, hope the lisper is not an ESL or has a funky India/British accent

3)  Speed up and slow down each difficult to understand phrase twice, speeding up and slowing down three times in each direction (make sense)

4)  Listen to the entire dictation a second time on slow speed.

Hope this helps.

to come across his last official medical report, it would certainly be a comfort to them that their loved one died peacefully rather than in pain or discomfort and was not alone in his final moments.

 Yes - the few death reports I have transcribed over the years - each one of them alway automatically brought tears to my eyes.  It just shows that we're human, we care, and the dictating doc must also care, or he/she would just have dictated the medically/legally pertinent information.

their social circle. Quite sad. They need to get out more.