Re: Flag tags

On 5/31/2012 1:56 PM, Shawn Steele wrote:
>
> > First, reprinting Shakespeare's works using flags would make it
> immediately
>
> > and utterly illegible to most speakers of English. So they would
> fail the test
>
> > of being recognizably the same letter.
>
> FWIW: The "Alpha" flag doesn't mean "A". For example it also means
> "Diver Down". Most of the flags have other meanings beyond just a
> letter, like Quebec & Quarantine. So it's not just a substitution
> cipher. Combinations can also have special meanings. Additionally,
> repeaters make it more complicated than a simple substitution cipher,
> eg: November, Oscar, Repeat2, Repeat1 for noon == 4 different flags
> for 2 letters.
>
> Description: ICS November.svg
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ICS_November.svg>
>
>
>
> Description: ICS Oscar.svg
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ICS_Oscar.svg>
>
>
>
> Description: ICS Repeat Two.svg
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ICS_Repeat_Two.svg>
>
>
>
> Description: ICS Repeat One.svg
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ICS_Repeat_One.svg>
>
See, there you go.

A./
Received on Thu May 31 2012 - 16:59:53 CDT