The First Telegraph Company

I don’t quite know how to explain it yet, but I think this same effect is happening for me with the internet lately:

The first telegraph company opened for business in 1858. The operators who were around the receivers all the time soon learned to hear the song of the clicking and clacking and found they didn’t have to look at the scribed tape at all! They could read the messages in their heads as soon as they heard rhythm of the sounding brass. Cli-cli-click clack cla-cla-clack cli-cla-cla-click soon registered in their head as “STOP”.

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3 Comments

  1. Ian
    Posted January 21, 2009 at 12:17 pm | Permalink

    http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003442.php

    I forget, did I find this link here, or from somewhere else? Totally relevant either way, just not as helpful if it came from here in the first place!

  2. timebotcher
    Posted January 21, 2009 at 4:40 pm | Permalink

    “This well-tested method was devised by missionaries trying to learn languages lacking scripts, courses, or guidebooks, and works great for dialects, or indeed any language you want to learn.”

    Never thought about that subject before, really cool!

  3. Ian
    Posted January 22, 2009 at 11:01 am | Permalink

    Yeah, I figure it’s just an example of how the mind works. Better to examine existing, functioning structures, than to try to learn them by rote in a classroom. That’s true whether your learning Chinese, Russian, “rhythm of the sounding brass”, or the internet!

    Also, after scrolling down and looking through the excerpts from the book and I see this:

    Kino: “The blue jug with the pretty flowers is on the high wooden shelf.”
    You: “The jug is on the shelf.”

    :)

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