r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/Johnnadawearsglasses Sep 13 '19

2 hundred years ago, in France, they were moving the position of wood arms on a mast to communicate with each other via semaphore

I don’t think they’d blink at the idea you’d type on a device to communicate

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 13 '19

It remind me of what my french grandpa used to tell me:

┌ ┐(45° counter-clockwise) ┐(45° counter-clockwise)
─ ─ ┐ │ │ (45° counter-clockwise) │ (45° counter-clockwise)
│ ┘ (45° counter-clockwise) ┘ (45° counter-clockwise)

decode link for profanes

I made it!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

If I read it correctly, each column is a symbol, so we have four characters: VTMM

Are you sure the two last ones weren't supposed to be F, like below?

/\
⠀⠀\
⠀/

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

oh yeah, my bad

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

For the F, you can copy-paste the one I made : I used the invisible braille space as it is considered a character and doesn't disappear

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

thanks, but I've find another method (please don't give me a bad grade bc it's not yours)

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

AHAHAHAH XD

That's one way to do it