Brenda Ann wrote:
"Al Klein" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:42:38 -0400, "J. D. B."
wrote:

Any language can be signed - but ASL is a recognized (by the experts)
language. Which nullifies that argument.

CW is not a language, it is a mode. I think what is being confused here is
Morse code, and in particular much of the Morse shorthand used in the CW
mode (and, for that matter, in much of phone mode as well). Those ARE a
language of sorts.
they are a jargon but they can comincate the rnanage of expression
twith someone that does not share with the same underlying language
that Al needing to glofiy his favortie mode chooses to over look it's
limits (and prehaps it has no limits for him and can indeed express
everything he wants to express on the air)