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Old 07-06-23, 03:05 PM   #1
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Submorse. It's on Steam. It's free. You're aboard a submarine, and you learn/practice Morse Code. I thought I'd mention it.

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Old 07-06-23, 03:32 PM   #2
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Too imagine that in my teen years, because I was bored and thought it were cool, I learned flag semaphore.
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Too imagine that in my teen years, because I was bored and thought it were cool, I learned flag semaphore.
In the U. S. Navy, the Signalmen who do the flag semaphore are called, "Skivvy Wavers", LOL!

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Is it still in practice?


I find no translation for skivvy wavers? What does skivvy mean?


I have forgotten it all now, but back then I could signal fluently. Learning to read was more difficult, since I had no partner signalling. I used illustrations from books, copied pages, cut the lines out and arranged them randomly. Later I had a primitive program vor VC-20 that randomly generated the angles for the letters. I had to type the code in by hand, three pages from some related Commodore-magazine, or booklet. It was not funny. Already back then I excelled in creating typos... And then in Basic code... Nightmare...
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I have forgotten it all now, but back then I could signal fluently. Learning to read was more difficult, since I had no partner signalling. I used illustrations from books, copied pages, cut the lines out and arranged them randomly. Later I had a primitive program vor VC-20 that randomly generated the angles for the letters. I had to type the code in by hand, three pages from some related Commodore-magazine, or booklet. It was not funny. Already back then I excelled in creating typos... And then in Basic code... Nightmare...
When I retired, just after the end of Desert Storm, there were still guys who knew how to do it. Now? Who knows? Nothing is the same as it was in my day.

My era was the last of what I'd call the traditional military. I served with a few guys who were in World War 2, lots of Korea veterans, and almost everyone had served in Vietnam.

These days, we'd all be court-martialed for making them cry. They don't allow barbarians anymore, LOL!

As for the word, "skivvy", it is slang for, "underpants" in US military English. As in, "I put on my skivvies before donning my trousers". I think it was adopted from Japanese.

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Ah. Mud slingers, so to speak.
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