On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 9:29:32 +0000, Ross Clark wrote:
> On 4/10/2024 8:14 p.m., HenHanna wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 16:56:19 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>>>
>>> Ar an triú lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:
>>>
>>> > ...---...
>>> > At the First International Radiotelegraph Convention, in Berlin. The
>>> Germans
>>> > had already begun using this signal.
>>>
>>> “In both the 1 April 1905 German law and the 1906 international
>>> regulations,
>>> the distress signal is specified as a continuous Morse code sequence of
>>> three
>>> dots / three dashes / three dots, with no mention of any alphabetic
>>> equivalents.”
>>>
>>> So the specification of the dots and dashes came first, and given there
>>> were
>>> two common alphanumeric encodings for Morse code at the time, the
>>> alphanumeric
>>> meaning was not then specified.
>>>
>>> > "neither so short as to be ambiguous nor so long as to be unwieldy"
>>> > (Crystal worded this with "too", which seems wrong.)
>>
>>
>> What was the sentence with "TOO" ?
>
> "neither too short to be ambiguous nor too long to be unwieldy"
>
> which doesn't make sense when you think about it.
> Book needed an editor.
>
or a better one (an editor).
i didn't get it at first, but you're right....
considering, e.g.
Bob is too big to fit into that spot.
Bob is too big to be comfortable in that spot.
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