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Fascinating talk, thank you. I was curious, I saw it mentioned that stenographers have their own styles around the edges of the language.

Would it be possible to capture each users' idiosyncrasies, and work them in to the core to keep it expanding? (Perhaps using statistical analysis of shared chords?)

A goal could be to have the best of both worlds: flexibility to customize as one sees fit. Yet, also have the idiomatic ways bundled in. That way a user could minimize the amount of time spent tinkering, if they so wished.



I've thought about having a sort of collaborative dictionary, updated in realtime with entries weighted by how frequently people use them over a certain period of time. I'm not sure how practical it would actually turn out to be, but it's an interesting idea.




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