Steno: Song of New Year's Eve

[marnanel]

Text for today: "Look to your lord who gives you life" (the first line of "Song of New Year's Eve").

This is mostly unremarkable:

Look = HRAOBG (note AO is this vowel as well as the vowel in Food, if those differ for you)
To = TO as spelt
Your = YOUR as spelt
Lord = HRORD. Typing this as HRORT gives you "life-support", which is amusingly appropriate.
Who = WHO as spelt (this threw me)
Gives = TPKWEUF + Z. You can actually do this in one chord but I don't feel quite confident enough, so I did it in two.
You = U, just the letter. (You might assume from this that Your is UR, but that's You're.)
Life = HRIF

Edit: I am moving these posts to a thread on the Plover Aviary.

Comments

[desh]

As you get better at steno, do you still think of initial-L as being composed of H and R (which of course seems absurd to any literate English speaker not familiar with steno), or does that kind of go away in the same way that I don't think of "w" as "two v's" when I'm writing it anymore?

[marnanel]

Good question. It kind of goes away, except that you'd still have to write it as HR if you were describing the outline to someone. But when I think of HR I think of it spatially, as the pattern on the keyboard (vide). And then again I'm scarcely an expert yet :)