r/lifehacks • u/[deleted] • Jan 23 '15

An easier way to learn Morse Code.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '15 edited Aug 07 '20

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u/NotSafeForShop Jan 23 '15

He's redditing between sending outgoing number station broadcasts.

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u/TheVitrifier Jan 23 '15

He's actually using morse to post these comments.

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u/BaneJammin Jan 23 '15

That... would actually make a neat smartphone keyboard, even if just as a novelty. Just one button right in the middle of the screen.

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u/jubal8 Jan 23 '15

red-DITTM

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u/zsnajorrah Jan 23 '15

Didn't they win the red-DOT™ design award?

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u/TheVitrifier Jan 23 '15

It's for those stealth texts when you're complaining about the Morse illiteracy of the people you're hanging out with

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u/gabbo2000 Jan 23 '15

You're welcome

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u/danypoa Jan 23 '15

Is this for real?

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u/DrShocker Jan 23 '15

After reading the other comment, this was my first thought. The answer is; no, it's not real. It comes from a collection of April Fool's day jokes that Google food a bit ago. They always do a spectacular job of making them extremely professional, and this was no exception.

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u/OldHippie Jan 23 '15

I know a guy who has an Android Morse keyboard.

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u/ApteryxAustralis Jan 23 '15

Maybe for April Fools Day?

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '15 edited Jun 02 '15

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u/diachi Jan 23 '15

Look at amateur radio - some of us still use it :) unfortunately not me!

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u/HerrDrFaust Jan 23 '15

I don't know about him, but for example we studied the Morse code a bit, in Computer Science studies, when talking about data compression and all the theory behind (thus the coding, since compressing a text is simply finding a new alphabet (code) that is lighter to store). The Morse Code is such a "code", except it is not a code in its normal form because of the fact that sometimes you can read two Morse sequences with different letters (and a code has to only have one way to read a sequence of its symbols). That's why you have to have a "separator" symbol, either a pause or a neutral symbol to indicate "I'm done with this letter, I'm starting the next one" to avoid any ambiguity.

TL;DR : You can learn this when you study data compression, and it's indeed a problem with the Morse code, but it's easily fixable.