Morse code is made up of dots and dashes. How did telegraph operators keep from losing track of where one letter ended and another began?

Question

In the movies, morse code comes through so fast it’s hard to tell a dot from a dash. Hoe did they keep from getting lost?

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Answer 1

>so fast it’s hard to tell

That’s actually part of what makes it work so well. An experienced operator won’t think in dots and dashes, just like you don’t think of individual lines but whole letters when reading a written text.