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    Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899

    A Future of Petticoats and Personal Airships

    The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    I can see how it would conserve characters, and keep the info private from random passers-by or telegram delivery boys, but the telegraph operators would still know what you were saying, since they invented the code. So the guys sending and receiving the dots and dashes could still know all your morisco flank bidness.
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    Especially Evidential is pleasing alliterative and also quite pithy.
    Hortyard, however, is my new favourite word.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    Hominy. Mopishness.
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    Image of tudza tudza
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    Well, I wonder if the original users of this ever managed to memorize it, or if they had to carry around a code table. If you have to carry a code table, why not simply use short code phrases that are all the same length? Five character groupings say.
    Better yet, why not Q codes for Twitter like they have for amateur radio? Those are meant to be understood by everyone no matter the language they speak, although conversations carried out using them are a bit limited in content. ( Can you hear me okay? Where yah from? KTHXBYE )
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    Image of k4man k4man
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    There was also a secret, secondary code of shorthand that the telegraph operators used after hours only amidst themselves.
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    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    even better...
    "Over 69 years, Quincy Adams filled 51 volumes with diaristic entries, and he was frequently juggling several diaries. One included lengthy entries, another shorter musings, and a third summed up his day in telegraphic style. Examples from the tersest diary include the following:
    January 1, 1795: "Thursday. The Hague. Attended the Stadtholder's Court. Paid official New Years day visits."
    October 12, 1800: "My cough getting better. Walk round the Walls. Reading Amadis de Gaulis. Tedious."
    November 22, 1831: "Thunder and Snow. Letter on Imprisonment for debt. Reading on Masonry."
    [twitter.com]
    [www.boston.com]
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    Holy crap, that stuff is obtuse. But I bet it'd be awesome once you got the hang of it.
    "FLANK! FLAAAAAAAAANK!"
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    Kavass hypozoic desertless evidential flank especially lambative morisco.
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    Image of Caitlin Petrakovitz Caitlin Petrakovitz
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    I feel the Borg would have been much more succinct if they'd gone with simply
    "Roselite."
    Though obviously not nearly as quotable.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    08/04/09

    @Caitlin Petrakovitz: and now i've got the image of a borg inexorably marching towards me repeating "rosebud" in the voice of charles foster cain.
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    08/04/09

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    so what you're saying is that lol speak didn't kill the english language because it decemvir?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/04/09

    @tetracycloide: Yibble yibble. Figure THAT one out, you smitnerk.
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    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    As an attorney, I must say lambative morisco blockish. Separately, rutaceous.
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    Image of zerofritz zerofritz
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    original book can be found, thanks to expired copyright, here:

    [bit.ly]

    PS: Holy crap: was that a URL that auto-linked?
    PPS: yeah, before you edited your comment, smartass. BLACKMOOR
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    08/04/09

    @zerofritz: here is the actual link:
    [bit.ly]
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    Image of North Star North Star
    08/04/09

    In reply to Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899
    "Boutade. Banisher. I am slank."
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    08/04/09

    @North Star: Hortyard. Desertless. Insidiator?
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    08/04/09

    @Lassus: Educt wife. Valve.
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    08/04/09

    @North Star: It disband. Cantile, but wreakful by evidential?
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    08/04/09

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    I have to wonder if "Can you recommend me to a good female cook" (under "CRISP") is another code in itself...
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    07/28/09

    In reply to A Future of Petticoats and Personal Airships
    What I find surprising is that some of these things did come to pass, although not exactly as imagined: Number 8 is a form of television; tourists do go to the Artic like in Number 5 even if it's not by airship; anyone who's been to an airport has seen a moving sidewalk like 3; and x-rays are used in crimefighting like Number 12, although not as surveilance.
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    07/28/09

    @Bill-Lee: And we may not move whole city blocks by train we can move buildings by truck.
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