Irish
Posted By: mtmomof3 on 2007-11-09
In Reply to: anyone else think British accents are sometimes difficult? - SA
I had a doc from Ireland that was very hard to understand. I also think Brittish is harder to understand than some others. Glad someone else feels that way!!
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Try Irish dance!
My 16-year-old daughter got involved a couple of years ago, and it's wonderful! I had to sit through all the classes as I'm our area coordinator, so I decided to join the adult classes. It's a very social dance form, especially with adults who do a lot of what is called ceili dancing, which essentially dancing with a group of people. In Ireland, it's not unusual for 4 to 100 people to get together than do progressive dancing (stopping for a pint of Guinness as needed) for hours on end.
To look for a school in your area, go to http://www.geocities.com/aer_mcr/irdance/irteach.html
Whatever class you take, YOU GO, GIRL!
Or when the Irish came over a century ago...
And the Italians and the Chinese and the Jews fleeing Europe....
There have always been immigrants and unfortunately it always seems that the "previous" group wants to look down on them. Only ones that DIDN'T get to do that were the Native Americans, and if anybody's entitled to do it, I agree they are.
Irish dance competition.
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And the Edge is my favorite, Irish man + (nm)
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Hi, Irish. Don't feel bad about asking questions and needing help, EVER!
That's what this board is for. Well, that's what most of us believe. Some us like to bash people and argue and just be plain mean, but ignore them.
SM stands for "see message."
NM stands for "no message."
Do you have an abbreviation expander? If not, I would suggest PC Shorthand. In my opinion it's the easiest to learn and use and it's affordable. If you choose or already use PC Shorthand, then I would follow the Mary Morken link that someone posted below and download her abbreviation and Expander list as it is formatted for PC ShortHand and it would be a great starting point for a new MT. I would take the time to print out her list as well so you can read over the abbreviations and expansions and become familiar with what you're using. Then start adding your own abbreviations to the list.
Hi, Irish. FWIW, I use my numbers keys for all SM
they're worth--just the opposite of what you're asking, but my experience is that I need more keys on my keyboard, not fewer. 2dg is 2nd digit and 2dgg second digit.
I don't have IT, but I'm sure it's very flexible. For me, j = has and h = had, e = was and c = are, d = and, k = she, u = her, and so on. I have literally hundreds of sentences compacted to their initial letters using them, including practically every variation that can be produced of them, as well as practically every phrase that is contained in them (please feel free to, please do not hesitate, call me with any, me with any questions, to call me if, contact me should you, and on and on. To differentiate those that use the same letters I pick a key word in the phrase and use 2 letters from it -- contact is cn and call is cl. With this system, virtually no memorization is needed. A D added to a letter designating a verb makes the phrase past tense. And sooo oooonnnn!
BTW, with editing, being able to drop in little 2- and 3-word correction phrases, as well single words of course, becomes the name of the game.
Not exactly what you asked for, but I hope it sparks some thought on how you want to build your systems. As others already said, various systems for various situations are required. For instance, in my system for caps, I actually try to avoid using the caps key and hpi is HPI, hpii is history of present illness, and hpizz is History of Present Illness.
It's fun figuring out what floats your particular boat...
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