It's still English, but the buttons used by a court reporter's steno machine look like a bunch of grey piano keys. For the professionals who've mastered this machine, they can play a beautiful concerto of pushes and taps to produce more than 200 words a minute. For novices like Joel D. Smith, it's an impossibly confusing machine where the letters "SKWROEL" somehow spell "Joel." The machine has 26 buttons, but actually represents not letters, but groups of letters and sounds to create so many words at time. According to.... MORE
