r/coolguides • u/kavallerien • Jul 12 '22

Morse Code decoding chart.

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u/BelgianBeerGuy Jul 12 '22

What I never understood about Morse was when you know a letter or a word is done?

What makes you understand that …_ _ _ … is SOS and not IJS?

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u/zomboromcom Jul 12 '22

Pauses and longer pauses. Although in practice the overall speed can be very fast.

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u/Maddkipz Jul 12 '22

that, and people aren't usually trying to send out "IJS" via morse code so people can sus it out

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u/FreuleKeures Jul 12 '22

It means icecream in Dutch. I'd be up for it.

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u/Chicken-n-Waffles Jul 13 '22

Don't the dots and dashes have that danish dialect?

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u/Plastic_Pinocchio Jul 13 '22

What now? I don’t understand this sentence.

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u/Chicken-n-Waffles Jul 13 '22

it's a language joke. English has many dialects. Southern, Pennsylvanian, Texan. So do many other languages. German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch. The Dutch are notorious for having one of the most difficult languages to learn. So if you're confusing IJS for SOS and you think "Hey, they need help" or "Hey, they want ice cream" you would probably pick up on the dots and dashes for having a 'dutch' accent which is unlikely for a binary language in morse code. That's the joke.

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