Question about WW2 radio codes

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Asian languages have been discussed ("thrown around") a lot, before this forum existed,  in the old mailing list.

Not just thrown around... I wasn't aware of the old mailing list (or the VMS) before 2007, but I learned Korean before I knew about the VMS. At one point, I knew it well enough that I could read news articles as long as they weren't too technical and I could catch a fair percentage of the conversation in KDrama (if it wasn't too technical) and so one of the first languages I tried on the VMS (and have revisited many times), was Korean. I know a little bit of Japanese (spoken and written) and a little bit of Chinese (not spoken, but I can puzzle out the words on packages with help from dictionaries). After I encountered the VMS, I also took the time to learn many Asian and African alphabets and a number of Asian/Indian writing systems, enough to work out simple words with help from dictionaries.


I've always been interested in Asian languages. I will never have sufficient time to become really good at any of them, but the almost-syllabic nature of the VMS was part of the reason it attracted my attention in the first place, but it's not jumping out and waving any obvious flags about what it might be for the same reasons it's not mapping well to western languages, it is too positionally rigid and repetitive.