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Interesting! Do you know how it deals with ambiguity? I saw the part about using key order to disambiguate which key was the first letter. But what about words
by cjbprime 5y ago
Interesting! Do you know how it deals with ambiguity? I saw the part about using key order to disambiguate which key was the first letter. But what about words with remaining ambiguity? Or words when there's an "s" in the word, but also a plural form ending "s" that you might want instead of the singular?
- kqr 5y agoThe honest (and unfortunately short) answer is: No. I don't know. Maybe it makes sense at least in some instances to repurpose the Z as a plural S, but I suspect it will be somewhat dependent on what comes before it.
- cjbprime 5y agoThanks for the answer! Perhaps someone could write a script calculating what percentage of common words can be expressed unambiguously using this keyboard? It seems like the percentage would be quite low to me (considering e.g. 80% to be "low" given how often you'd have to issue slow corrections), but I might be misunderstanding the rules and I expect it would improve in English with your Z-as-S idea.
- kqr 5y agoThe general idea has been used for decades in Europe by people doing closed captioning for live television and other types of speed-demanding work. So the idea is tried and true, and I have no worries about ambiguity from that perspective. The bits I'm uncertain about are the specific details around substitutions and such.
- arxanas 5y agoI use Z for plurals exclusively; that's one common system. You might be interested in my post: https://blog.waleedkhan.name/my-steno-system/#orthography https://blog.waleedkhan.name/my-steno-system/#orthography For homophones, I use a different vowel (OEU = oi, the least used vowel sound; AE is an extra vowel sound not representing anything). For proper vs common names, i often duplicate the stroke (e.g. MAT = "mat", MAT/MAT = "Matt").