Typing English

Actually, a certain amount of stenography's power is monitoring the typing stream and fixing things up based on the assumption that you're typing English.

Think about that a minute.

If I could do that all the time (well, when I'm typing English), then a lot of typing errors could be autocorrected as I type. I could also already put in some shortcuts - non-steno shortcuts of some kind - that could examine the text stream and act correctly, pluralizing words, adding -ly, that kind of thing.

And another thing - if I'm replacing AHK with Plover in a QWERTY mode, then I also get to define my own stop keys. That's going to be pretty damned convenient when using CAT tools! No more funky mistypes at the start of translation segments.

This is gonna be so cool!