From: John Smith on Jun 14, 9:30 pm

Len:

Did I miss something here, if you know morse it gives you the ability to speak and read french?

Any "good" morseman KNOWS EVERYTHING! :-)

That's the ONLY skill they need...and some have said so. :-)

Hell, I know morse and still can't speak to the french, unless they
morse in english!!! Same with the Germans, Dutch, Spanish, etc....

Way back two centuries ago, Sam (Morse) and Al (Vail) revised
Morse's original code (all numbers) into something representing
ENGLISH letters, numbers, and some punctuation marks. That was
roughly in the 1840s. After radio was demonstrated in 1896
(in Italy and Russia) as a communications medium, the good
(and always CORRECT) morsemen claimed it was an "international
language." :-)

"CW gets through when anything else will..." - B. Burke