{"id":4996,"date":"2019-07-04T22:43:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T05:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2019-07-04T22:43:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T05:43:02","slug":"morse-code-mnemonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=4996","title":{"rendered":"Morse code mnemonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morse code just got 10 times cooler &#8211; or maybe just 10 times easier to learn!<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I stumbled on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=2238\">mind-blowing binary tree version of Morse code<\/a>.  I was so excited about this that I downloaded a &#8220;learn Morse code&#8221; app on my phone and started practicing it, gradually working up to faster comprehension speeds.  But then I got distracted by some other shiny thing and stopped practicing and Morse code went dormant in my brain.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago I re-encountered it in this amazing video by the always impressive Nelson Dellis:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8tPkb98Fkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nelson gives us mnemonics for learning Morse code.  This is absolutely BRILLIANT since Morse code is already audible. :)  After watching his video exactly *once*, I already know Morse code for my name and can recall it with negligible effort: <\/p>\n<p>-.-  ..  .-.  ..<\/p>\n<p>(mnemonic: KAN-ga-ROO i-bid ro-TA-tion i-bid)<\/p>\n<p>*and* I discovered a beautiful symmetry in my Morse name!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m truly impressed by how quickly and easily this mnemonic sunk in.  Nelson, you rock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morse code just got 10 times cooler &#8211; or maybe just 10 times easier to learn! A few years ago, I stumbled on the mind-blowing binary tree version of Morse code. I was so excited about this that I downloaded a &#8220;learn Morse code&#8221; app on my phone and started practicing it, gradually working up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5001,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}