[Please tell him to stop being a nerd anytime, Fie...]
Yup. Not sure why? Sometimes it's because they need to make the message short to get it out there. For a really long time, ships at sea would send SOS as a distress signal because it was easy to type and they could get the message across they needed help. Anyway there's plenty of ways to translate stuff but this is kind of the one people have heard about.
[And there he goes with the tapping again.] Five letters. See how there's a space between each group? The timing and tapping of it is what makes the words whole. So...a five letter message. [This time the tapping is purposeful, like he's trying to jar his brain a little to remember the letters.
...and then he stops. He stares at the paper vaguely horrified, tapping out the letters again while his eyebrows scrunch together.]
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Yup. Not sure why? Sometimes it's because they need to make the message short to get it out there. For a really long time, ships at sea would send SOS as a distress signal because it was easy to type and they could get the message across they needed help. Anyway there's plenty of ways to translate stuff but this is kind of the one people have heard about.
[And there he goes with the tapping again.] Five letters. See how there's a space between each group? The timing and tapping of it is what makes the words whole. So...a five letter message. [This time the tapping is purposeful, like he's trying to jar his brain a little to remember the letters.
...and then he stops. He stares at the paper vaguely horrified, tapping out the letters again while his eyebrows scrunch together.]
...oh.