Apahegy wrote:
With the recent double-release of Danish and Irish, I present to you, Morse Code.
The first thing you should now about Morse Code, is that it is not a language. Most people will probably already know that. Rather, it is an alternative way of using certain languages.
Morse Code, in its most basic sense, is composed of dots and dashes, when written. For example, "Morse Code" is: -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
Dots are read as "di" at the beginning of a word, and "dit" at the end of the word, while dashes are read as "dah" at all times. So "Morse Code" in Morse Code is read as "dah-dah dah-dah-dah di-dah-dit di-di-dit dit. Dah-di-dah-dit dah-dah-dah dah-di-dit dit."
The slash represents a space, where one word ends and a new word starts. These dots and dashes can be used in many ways. If you have a light source, like a flashlight, or car lights, you can turn on your brights and hold them for a few seconds, or you can simply turn them on and off really quickly. If you have a sound source, you can do short beeps and long beeps. What inspired me to learn Morse Code, was a spy show where a woman who was kidnapped BLINKED Morse Code over a video to send a message. If you know Morse Code, you can be very creative with it.
Proper use of Morse Code requires dashes to be approximately three times the length of a dot, and breaks between words to be three times as long as breaks between letters.
Once you know the dot-dash combination for each character, you can begin to use Morse Code. I now present you with every code I know:
A: .-
B: -...
C: -.-.
D: -..
E: .
F: ..-.
G: --.
H: ....
I: ..
J: .---
K: -.-
L: .-..
M: --
N: -.
O: ---
P: .--.
Q: --.-
R: .-.
S: ...
T: -
U: ..-
V: ...-
W: .--
X: -..-
Y: -.--
Z: --..
Ä: .-.-
Á: .--.-
Å: .--.- (This code is the same as the one for Á)
CH: ----
É: ..-..
Ñ: --.--
Ö: ---.
Ü: ..--
0: -----
1: .----
2: ..---
3: ...--
4: ....-
5: .....
6: -....
7: --...
8: ---..
9: ----.
Full Stop (Period.): .-.-.-
Comma,: --..--
Colon: ---...
Question Mark?: ..--..
Apostrophe': .----.
Hyphen-: -....-
Slash/: -..-.
(Parenthesis): -.--.-
"Quotation Marks": .-..-.
"At" sign, @: .--.-.
"Equals" sign, =: -...-
Once you learn the code for each letter, you begin to use Morse Code in any language you want, as long as that language uses the Latin alphabet. Here is an example: ..-. --- ..- .-. / .. ... / ....- / .-.-.-
Can you figure that out? It says, "Four is 4." Here are some more to practice with:
-.. ..- --- .-.. .. -. --. --- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - / -.-.--
-.. ..- --- .-.. .. -. --. --- / .. ... - / - --- .-.. .-.. / .-.---
-.. ..- --- .-.. .. -. --. --- / . ... / -... ..- . -. --- / -.-.--
-- .- --. -.-- .- .-. --- .-. ... --.. .--.- --. / -. .- --. -.-- / ...- .- -. / -.-.--
These codes really are not that hard to remember, and once you start reading a message, it becomes very predictable. You will recognize words once you have decoded half of it, and you will predict sentences being only a few words in.
.. / .... --- .--. . / -.-- --- ..- / . -. .--- --- -.-- / .-.-.-
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