Re: Flag tags

[Asmus Freytag]

On 5/31/2012 1:56 PM, Shawn Steele wrote: > First, reprinting Shakespeare's works using flags would make it immediately > and utterly illegible to most speakers of English. So they would fail the test > of being recognizably the same letter.   FWIW: The "Alpha" flag doesn't mean "A".  For example it also means "Diver Down".  Most of the flags have other meanings beyond just a letter, like Quebec & Quarantine.  So it's not just a substitution cipher.  Combinations can also have special meanings.  Additionally, repeaters make it more complicated than a simple substitution cipher,  eg: November, Oscar, Repeat2, Repeat1 for noon == 4 different flags for 2 letters.       See, there you go. A./