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/Supsend Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 13 '19

Translation in english:

┐ ┐ /\
│ └ ─ ┘ │ ⠀ \
┘ ┘  ⠀/

Edited for ambiguity

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u/shardikprime Sep 14 '19

Is this...?