Comments on: SOS Game http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/ Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: k2mfw http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-183365 k2mfw Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:15:59 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-183365 Pretty close...Actually to properly send SOS in Morse Code it is NOT send as 3 distinct letters, but SOS all run together as a single letter...it would sound like this: didididahdahdahdididit It's unique SOUND is what makes it stand out, not necessarily because to the lay person is sounds like SOS, although we all call it SOS. QRRR has also been used. My 2 Cents as a ham for the last 40 years and Coast Guard Auxiliary Radio Officer. Pretty close…Actually to properly send SOS in Morse Code it is NOT send as 3 distinct letters, but SOS all run together as a single letter…it would sound like this: didididahdahdahdididit It’s unique SOUND is what makes it stand out, not necessarily because to the lay person is sounds like SOS, although we all call it SOS. QRRR has also been used. My 2 Cents as a ham for the last 40 years and Coast Guard Auxiliary Radio Officer.

]]> By: leoNard http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-166694 leoNard Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:44:21 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-166694 Great article...thanks friend------Quote"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 :smile: Great article…thanks friend——Quote”If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.” – George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 :smile:

]]> By: leonard http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-155055 leonard Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:24:53 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-155055 I think, that, your dress is pretty. <b> Save OUR sOUl</b><blockquote><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JUvbJekM88" rel="nofollow">Jonas Brothers "SOS" music video. Taken from their new album in stores Aug 7th, 2007. </a>...nothing changes, same music as years before... :lol: </blockquote><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_56fz10C6o" rel="nofollow">Nick Lowe I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass </a>...good night for hot words :lol: I think, that, your dress is pretty. Save OUR sOUl
Jonas Brothers “SOS” music video. Taken from their new album in stores Aug 7th, 2007. …nothing changes, same music as years before… :lol:

Nick Lowe I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass
…good night for hot words :lol:

]]> By: rijk http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-144702 rijk Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:44:17 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-144702 no. 3 think it was an Italian ship. no. 3 think it was an Italian ship.

]]> By: mijj http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-62156 mijj Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:50:55 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-62156 :cry: that's so sad, misterc! it doesn't seem like a sensible idea either. :cry: that’s so sad, misterc!

it doesn’t seem like a sensible idea either.

]]> By: misterc http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-62155 misterc Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:42:24 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-62155 Posted a reply to your comment. Just look above. :smile: Posted a reply to your comment. Just look above. :smile:

]]> By: misterc http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-62152 misterc Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:39:24 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-62152 <i> On 12 July 1999 the last commercial Morse code message in North America was sent from a Globe Wireless station south of San Francisco. </i> Here's the link - http://www.radiomarine.org/lastmorse.html - to the rest of the article - <b>The End of Morse</b> On 12 July 1999 the last commercial Morse code message in North America was sent from a Globe Wireless station south of San Francisco.

Here’s the link – http://www.radiomarine.org/lastmorse.html – to the rest of the article – The End of Morse

]]> By: mijj http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-62127 mijj Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:47:30 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-62127 that doesn't sound like a good idea. Morse is low tech .. you need to be able to fall back onto a low tech alternative, especially for emergency situations. It would be a disaster to abandon it. that doesn’t sound like a good idea.

Morse is low tech .. you need to be able to fall back onto a low tech alternative, especially for emergency situations. It would be a disaster to abandon it.

]]> By: mijj http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-62126 mijj Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:46:09 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-62126 drought day 5!! drought day 5!!

]]> By: misterc http://hotforwords.com/2008/09/10/sos-game/#comment-60569 misterc Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:29:31 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1254#comment-60569 SOS - has no meaning. (That would be choice 6.) The three dots, three dash, three dots, . . . were easy to send and easy to receive. By the way, using Morse Code has been discontinued. (Modern communication has made Morse Code obsolete.) SOS – has no meaning. (That would be choice 6.)

The three dots, three dash, three dots, . . . were easy to send and easy to receive.

By the way, using Morse Code has been discontinued. (Modern communication has made Morse Code obsolete.)

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