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Maybe Morse is just "out", right now, in the geek population? I shall send out the signal for us to unite: ... ___ ... ___ ...

Hm. Morse makes adding an ellipsis remarkably challenging!

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Perhaps it'll get across if the message is in a bottle.

IMO Morse code misses the point, because it doesn’t depict letters, it encodes the abstract characters into completely different “glyphs”. In particular, knowing the English letters doesn’t make you understand Morse code the way it makes you able to read Two Slice; you need to know the mapping between letters and Morse code.

You can trivially encode any alphabet into a one-dimensional graphical encoding. But you couldn’t, for example, have a remotely intelligible two-pixel Chinese font in the way Two Slice demonstrates that you can have an English one.

I feel sure thechao knows this, and is just joking in both comments here.

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