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Interesting to see the similarities with SMS abbreviations.
by athenot 11y ago
Interesting to see the similarities with SMS abbreviations.
- erbo 11y agoAlso with abbreviations and codes used by ham operators communicating via CW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code
- keenerd 11y agoMore interesting are the differences caused by the medium of Morse Code. The characters are variable length and the dashes are 3x as long as the dots. So dash-heavy letters* are more likely to be dropped. Also why you rarely see numbers: the longest letter is four symbols but every digit is five symbols. In many cases it would be faster to use roman numerals. * 3 dashes: J O Q Y. 2 dashes: C G K M P W X Z.