...---...
At the First International Radiotelegraph Convention, in Berlin. The Germans had already begun using this signal.
"neither so short as to be ambiguous nor so long as to be unwieldy"
(Crystal worded this with "too", which seems wrong.)
It's technically a _prosign_ (procedural sign) -- a single unit, not a letter
sequence.
it's an _ambigram_ -- reads the same when flipped over (useful if you've written it on the ground and people are searching for you from different directions...)
Ar an triú lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:
...---...Germans
At the First International Radiotelegraph Convention, in Berlin. The
had already begun using this signal.
“In both the 1 April 1905 German law and the 1906 international regulations,
the distress signal is specified as a continuous Morse code sequence of
three
dots / three dashes / three dots, with no mention of any alphabetic equivalents.”
So the specification of the dots and dashes came first, and given there
were
two common alphanumeric encodings for Morse code at the time, the alphanumeric
meaning was not then specified.
"neither so short as to be ambiguous nor so long as to be unwieldy" (Crystal worded this with "too", which seems wrong.)
It's technically a _prosign_ (procedural sign) -- a single unit, nota letter
sequence.
it's an _ambigram_ -- reads the same when flipped over (useful ifyou've
written it on the ground and people are searching for you fromdifferent
directions...)
On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 16:56:19 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
Ar an triú lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:
...---...Germans
At the First International Radiotelegraph Convention, in Berlin. The
had already begun using this signal.
“In both the 1 April 1905 German law and the 1906 international
regulations,
the distress signal is specified as a continuous Morse code sequence of
three
dots / three dashes / three dots, with no mention of any alphabetic
equivalents.”
So the specification of the dots and dashes came first, and given there
were
two common alphanumeric encodings for Morse code at the time, the
alphanumeric
meaning was not then specified.
"neither so short as to be ambiguous nor so long as to be unwieldy"
(Crystal worded this with "too", which seems wrong.)
What was the sentence with "TOO" ?
;a letter
It's technically a _prosign_ (procedural sign) -- a single unit, not
sequence.you've
;
it's an _ambigram_ -- reads the same when flipped over (useful if
written it on the ground and people are searching for you fromdifferent
directions...)
WHen i started studying French (around age 20), several
mysteries got solved....
One of them was
"SOS" (signal) has nothing to do with "May Day"
On 4/10/2024 8:14 p.m., HenHanna wrote:
On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 16:56:19 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
Ar an triú lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:
...---...
At the First International Radiotelegraph Convention, in Berlin. The >>> Germans
had already begun using this signal.
“In both the 1 April 1905 German law and the 1906 international
regulations,
the distress signal is specified as a continuous Morse code sequence of
three
dots / three dashes / three dots, with no mention of any alphabetic
equivalents.”
So the specification of the dots and dashes came first, and given there
were
two common alphanumeric encodings for Morse code at the time, the
alphanumeric
meaning was not then specified.
"neither so short as to be ambiguous nor so long as to be unwieldy"
(Crystal worded this with "too", which seems wrong.)
What was the sentence with "TOO" ?
"neither too short to be ambiguous nor too long to be unwieldy"
which doesn't make sense when you think about it.
Book needed an editor.
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