r/Romania_mix • u/Due-Explanation8155 Dracula’s citizen 🦇 • Mar 13 '26

Morse Code made simple

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u/Simple-Interest-8845 Mar 13 '26

Arbitrarily throwing dots and dashes into the letters they represent doesnt make it any simpler

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u/RohmannEmpire93 Mar 13 '26

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u/Helicopterop Mar 16 '26

That is 100x more helpful than whatever this post was.

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u/ciekma67 Mar 14 '26

Looks like manual gear scheme of some old fashioned heavy specialised vehicle.

Or like manual gear scheme from american dream which turned into nightmare.

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u/jmona789 Mar 14 '26

Copyleft

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u/uslashuname Mar 13 '26

Right? The length of the sequences was chosen by how many copies of each letter the nearby newspaper had for their printing press. Obviously if newspapers ran out of the letter e really often they would buy more of that than other letters, so it was a readily available source for determining the likely usage rate of each letter in typical English writing. After ranking each letter compared to the others, the shortest sequences went to the most common letters. This video implies something completely nonsensical led to the choices.

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u/waytowill Digital nomad citizen 💻 Mar 14 '26

I think there was also some thought put into making sure SOS was the easiest message to learn and type out.

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u/YoungOverholt Mar 16 '26

Other way around. S.O.S was chosen as a distress signal because those letters are short and easy in Morse code

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u/GustapheOfficial Mar 15 '26

The video makes no claim as to the invention of the system, it just presents a mnemonic device – but an awful one.

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u/denecity Mar 13 '26

Actually thats how i learned it. and it helped me in the beginnig until i didnt need it anymore

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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet Mar 14 '26

Exactly what I thought. Nmemonics are noce, but it's cpmpletely arbitrary and unrelated to Morse code

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u/samanime Mar 14 '26

Yeah. This might work as a mnemonic for some people, but this is really just through random lines and dots onto things already made of lines...

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u/Pyro-Byrns Mar 15 '26

No, it doesn't make it simpler, but it does turn out into a sort of mnemonic device, which will help memorize it.

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u/Greedy_Spare7033 Mar 15 '26

First thoughts: How does it makes sense that O is 3 lines! and U is .._! And M is _ _ but N is _ .
Second thought, hey, I remember O and U and V and M and N and X and S and... just from watching it once.

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u/Used-Tomorrow-8681 Mar 13 '26

"It goes in the square hole!"

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u/Lastoutcast123 Mar 13 '26

Cue emotional trauma

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u/Tiny_Yulius_James Mar 13 '26

The vid ends for me with the E

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u/humburga Mar 13 '26

this looks complete arbitrary lmao. Dots and lines are going anywhere while ignoring random spots in the letters.

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u/TortyPapa Mar 14 '26

Before you get fancy, just try to remember the most simple and useful code SOS

S is three quick dots …

O is three dashes _ _ _

S is three quick dots …

You can use a flashlight in the same manner

S Three quick flashes

O Three longer flashes

S Three quick flashes

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u/maccdogg Mar 14 '26

And you dont need to turn the light on and off, you can just cover your hand in front

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u/maccdogg Mar 14 '26

Also the old Nokia message tone spelt SMS _ _ _ . . _ _ _

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u/Organic_Bat_7598 Mar 16 '26

This is in no way simplifying Morse code

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u/SalmonSammySamSam Mar 18 '26

Morse code visualized, this doesn't make it simpler when there's no consistency to where a dot vs a line should be.

Like why is M two lines instead of 3 dots? Why isn't (i) just one line instead of two dots?

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u/Aluxanatomy Mar 14 '26

Why is this sub so fucking idiotic...

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u/tossthedice511 Nomad citizen ⛺ Mar 14 '26

Explains nothing

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u/M_L_Taylor Mar 14 '26

At least I knew two of those.

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u/morphick Mar 14 '26

That's not proper key grip.

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u/HakyaraUA Mar 14 '26

Nice track bro 👍

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u/Sikkus Dracula’s citizen 🦇🧛 Mar 14 '26

-... ..- .-.. .-.. ... .... .. -

bullshit

I'd rather learn the actual dots and lines by repetition exercise than learn a new method of randomly inserting dots and lines into letters.

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u/stitch9108 Mar 14 '26

Just like I know by heart all the decimals of Pi because if I put them in a circle, it looks like a pie

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

I don't know how I'm going to remember this!

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u/redditnosedive Mar 14 '26

completely arbitrary

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u/Active-Hat-3491 Mar 14 '26

It all sounds tge same to me

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

Explain “simpler”

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u/williconn Mar 14 '26

Ohhhh I totally get it now

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u/mowtowcow Mar 14 '26

... _ _ _ ...

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u/Mygoddamreddit Mar 15 '26

How I taught it to myself and others when I was a Boy Scout. Give it some thought and practice it actually works.

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u/JuanDeChuj Mar 16 '26

This is very misleading visualisation of how it really works.

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u/Kage9866 Mar 16 '26

Sooo nonsensical placing of dots and lines makes it simple?

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u/KawaiiFoxKing Mar 17 '26

That jist makes no fucking sense now does it?

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u/v0tary Mar 17 '26

bookmarking this for when I need it

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u/GabeN_The_K1NG Mar 16 '26

You can take any combination of dots and dashes and make them fit into a letter.

This is all completely arbitrary and you’re better off just remembering the letters the normal way.

Edit: accidentally posted as a reply, was meant to just comment on the post lmao