That's how we wrote telegrams when they were still commonplace. The practice started during the war, I believe, as a full word is far less likely to be lost in the conversion from radio code to writing than a single mark.
Certainly more than that, but I stopped counting quite some time ago.
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ya its p cute he spells out punctuation lmfao
lucky he didnt do morse code
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yk???
5th or 6th wind???
Sharky
[yes he knows the morse code for SOS. what else was he going to tap out on the radio when the receiver died???]
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That's how we wrote telegrams when they were still commonplace. The practice started during the war, I believe, as a full word is far less likely to be lost in the conversion from radio code to writing than a single mark.
Certainly more than that, but I stopped counting quite some time ago.
Giles
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god ur such a nerd so fuckin adorbs
also b real
did he drop his phone when he saw that pic
yes i kno ur tellin him i asked IDGAF
Sharky
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Almost. He was quite audibly surprised, and demanded why I hadn't told him.
He's also rather occupied with it now.
Giles
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that worked up abt a pic of it huh
good 2 kno
Sharky