LL-L 'Politics' 2006.09.12 (01) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 12 September 2006 * Volume 01
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From: Pat Reynolds [pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk]
Subject: LL-L 'Politics' 2006.09.11 (01) [E/morse-abbreviation]

In message <200609112026.k8BKQLO4020216 at listserv.linguistlist.org>,
Lowlands-L <lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net> writes
>This reminds the the allocation of the country letter prefixes
>for radio call signs in the 1920s.

The one and only time in my life when I was sitting one evening with
some radio folk was when I was being a 'human guide dog' at a summer
school for blind people. The person I was guiding, and his mates (all
jgf) had set up a temporary station, and I was learning that I couldn't
tell where one letter in morse stopped and the next started ... and then
Estonia decided it would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.

Radio-talk is a language/culture of its own: 'no politics' is one of its
'rules', but one of my abiding memories is the frisson in a room when a
bunch of blokes who (for obvious reasons) tend not to have very
expressive faces, realised the old Estonian call sign was revived.

Cheers,

Pat
(the other thing I remember is the number of abbreviations - jgf is a
'jolly good fellow'
-- 
Pat Reynolds
pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk
"It might look a bit messy now,
but just you come back in 500 years time"
(T. Pratchett)

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