Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:29:44 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

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

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

[Snip!]

 
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

I can see a new-to-me word and say it about right, enough that other
people will usually recognize it and can write it down.

granbazzle