I think this is the output from a court stenography machine, which 
produces a 'shorthand' form of language. See http://www.stenograph.com/ 
to see if there are tools to translate it out to natural language.

Bob Sandusky

On 5/23/2012 12:27 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> Looks like baloney to me.  I wouldn't touch it.
>
> Ralph
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> How do you get plain language, plain English out of the .sgstn
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> stenonote record of the public meeting of Boston City Council ?...
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