From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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Date: | Sunday, January 11, 2004, 19:25 |
Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:> > While some are certainly practical, others are > > IMO rather bizarre - and this is one such. > > Well, perhaps not so bizarre as all that. > Solresol was invented around 1817 or so - there > were no radios, barely any steam ships. Intership > communications consisted pretty much of > semaphores, flares and shouting.Firing cannons and waving flags were also pretty common. (The former grantedly mostly for the simplest of messages.) Andreas
Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |