Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#13
![]() |
|||
|
|||
![]()
(COLIN LAMB) wrote in
: Most of the acronyms or abbreviations were recognized, but one that caught me by surprise was "Pascoela = Natives have plundered everything from the wreck". Not too sure it would be useful today. I am guessing Pascoela is an acronym from another language. That's not an acronym or abbreviation but a code, intended to hide the meaning of the message. Pascoela is the Portugese name for Easter Monday (I think). http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~reedsj/codebooks.html Until about 1905 the vast majority of code books supplied actual dictionary words (or artificial words) as their code words, such as ``Snatch = Sutter Packing Co., Yuba City, Cal.'' in the private code of the California Fruit Canners' Association, or ``Pascoela = Natives have plundered everything from the wreck,'' in the very popular general-purpose ABC Code, some supplied number equivalents -- sometimes instead of, and sometimes in addition to-- the code word equivalents. But in the first decade of this century code books began appearing with code words which were meaningless and often unpronounceable fixed length groups of letters, usually of five letters. Thus, in a later edition of the ABC Code we have ``ewvgl = Pascoela = Natives have plundered everything from the wreck'' and so on. -- Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Pro-34 opinions | Scanner | |||
Another HB VNA - opinions, please... | Homebrew | |||
Need Opinions Please... | Boatanchors | |||
Need Opinions Please.... | Homebrew | |||
Need Opinions Please.... | Homebrew |