17. The steno translator system of claim 4 wherein the processor means further comprises: means for altering the exception dictionary comprising: means for generating a first control stroke symbol different from a lexical stroke symbol, the processor means being responsive to the first control stroke symbol to enable alteration access to the exception dictionary; means for entering a selected language part; means for generating a second control stroke symbol to define the end of the entered selected language part; means for entering a subsequence of at least one lexical stroke symbol defined to correspond to the entered language part; means for generating a predefined third control stroke symbol to define completion of the entering of lexical stroke symbols; and means for storing the entered language part and the corresponding entered lexical stroke symbols in the exception dictionary means in association with each other.
4. The steno translator system of claim 1 or 2 or 3 wherein the processor means further comprises: an exception dictionary memory for storing a list of dictionary entries, each dictionary entry comprising a subsequence of at least one lexical stroke symbol and an associated language part defining a translation of the subsequence for each dictionary entry; and searching means for comparing selected subsequences of lexical stroke symbols from the stroke symbol means, according to a predefined searching methodology, first against dictionary entries to identify a match, said match defined as a subsequence translation, and if no match is located in the exception dictionary memory next applying individual lexical stroke symbols to the scan chart memory to define a stroke symbol translation.