“WILL YOU MARRY ME” in Morse Code
·−− ·· ·−·· ·−·· / −·−− −−− ··− / −− ·− ·−· ·−· −·−− / −− ·
The grand gesture, forty signal elements long — and almost perfectly balanced at 19 dots to 21 dashes. Proposals have been keyed on ships’ lamps, flashlights and phone screens; at 12 WPM this one takes about twenty seconds of undivided attention, which is rather the point.
Letter by letter
W ·−− I ·· L ·−·· L ·−··
Y −·−− O −−− U ··−
M −− A ·− R ·−· R ·−· Y −·−−
M −− E ·
Reading it: a dot (·) is one unit long, a dash (−) is three. Letters are separated by a three-unit silence — written as a space — and words by seven units, written as a slash. Want to hear it slower or flash it as light? Open it in the morse code translator.
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