Apr. 23rd, 2005

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(i bet [livejournal.com profile] mthrtongue would like this)


some old telegraph codes, words published for telegraph operators to use in conveying stock phrases using assigned words. excerpt:

Embroider - Think the report is false.
Embroil - Think the report is true.
Embryotic - Think I had better -
Emerald - Think I had better not -
Emetic - Think you had better -


on the same website, john mcvey's mutilation odes, poems written using the telegraph codes.

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