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Morse Code Day (27 April)

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From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
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Subject: Morse Code Day (27 April)
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:04:04 +1200
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by: Ross Clark - Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:04 UTC

Birthday of Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), whose very useful
invention showed linguistic awareness by correlating (inversely) the
length of a code sequence with the frequency of the corresponding letter
in English.

The famous "What hath God wrought" (no punctuation) message was sent in
1838 from the Supreme Court room in the Capitol in Washington to Morse's
assistant Alford Vail in Baltimore (about 50km away).

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From: peter@pmoylan.org.invalid (Peter Moylan)
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by: Peter Moylan - Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:17 UTC

On 28/04/24 21:04, Ross Clark wrote:

> Birthday of Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), whose very useful
> invention showed linguistic awareness by correlating (inversely) the
> length of a code sequence with the frequency of the corresponding
> letter in English.

EISH TMO. A good summary of the letters I can render into Morse without
having to think about it. Oh, way, I can also do -.-. --.- But I seem
to have lost about half the alphabet through lack of practice.

Morse was also the surname of a 20th-century control systems researcher.
He did some good stuff, but his published work was often turgid. I once
heard it said that one of his papers was written in Morse code.

> The famous "What hath God wrought" (no punctuation) message was sent
> in 1838 from the Supreme Court room in the Capitol in Washington to
> Morse's assistant Alford Vail in Baltimore (about 50km away).

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

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by: Hibou - Sun, 28 Apr 2024 13:14 UTC

Le 28/04/2024 à 12:04, Ross Clark a écrit :
>
> Birthday of Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), whose very useful
> invention showed linguistic awareness by correlating (inversely) the
> length of a code sequence with the frequency of the corresponding letter
> in English.
>
> The famous "What hath God wrought" (no punctuation) message was sent in
> 1838 from the Supreme Court room in the Capitol in Washington to Morse's
> assistant Alford Vail in Baltimore (about 50km away).

All that remains is to find the shortest complete English sentence in
Morse code....

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by: occam - Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:50 UTC

On 28/04/2024 15:14, Hibou wrote:
> Le 28/04/2024 à 12:04, Ross Clark a écrit :
>>
>> Birthday of Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), whose very useful
>> invention showed linguistic awareness by correlating (inversely) the
>> length of a code sequence with the frequency of the corresponding
>> letter in English.
>>
>> The famous "What hath God wrought" (no punctuation) message was sent
>> in 1838 from the Supreme Court room in the Capitol in Washington to
>> Morse's assistant Alford Vail in Baltimore (about 50km away).
>
> All that remains is to find the shortest complete English sentence in
> Morse code....
>

<dah>!

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From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net (Steve Hayes)
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by: Steve Hayes - Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:26 UTC

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:17:58 +1000, Peter Moylan
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>EISH

A South African neologism, expressing distress or sympathy.

--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

Chicken Little was right.

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Subject	Author
Morse Code Day (27 April)	Ross Clark
Re: Morse Code Day (27 April)	Peter Moylan
Re: Morse Code Day (27 April)	Steve Hayes
Re: Morse Code Day (27 April)	Hibou
Re: Morse Code Day (27 April)	occam