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Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?

Al Klein wrote:
Really? You can write a spoken language you don't understand well
enough to be read by someone who understands it? Maybe. Maybe not.
In CW, you can.


Spanish words are easy to write even if one doesn't
understand them. In general, unlike English, there
is usually only one possible way to pronounce and to
spell a Spanish word. You hear "a-di-os". You write
a-d-i-o-s. You don't need to know what it means.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp