Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 2/23/25 16:53, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:42:25 +0100, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
 

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 We are so lucky to have a phoenetic character set. The early teletype
machines used a 5-bit Baudot code. And how did the Chinese manage to
use the telegraph?

Surely you are joking? The latin characters may have been phonetic
in Latin, but they certainly aren't in English!
Jeroen Belleman