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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:29:44 +0100
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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