[CW] WW2 Use of V instead of DE

[Richard Knoppow]

    V meaning von is the first explanation of this I've seen that 
makes sense. I wonder if this was standard practice on German 
landlines. However, I thought it was the French who are such 
language purists. Is the not an official government language 
department in France?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise

     However, at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators

There are several German language regulators listed.
     Are there language police who issue tickets like J-walking 
tickets? If they came with armoured cars and took people away 
there wouldn't be anyone left in the U.S.

On 1/25/2019 10:02 AM, pa0wv wrote:
> The answer is quite simple I suppose so:
> 
> It has no relation to railway code.
> 
> DE is French language and VON is german language for the same word,
> 
> So the Germans were for language purity, telephone or German 
> Telefon was prohibited, because it was imported foreign 
> language,  and changed to Fernsprechapparat (English  translated 
> : device_to_speak_over_a_large_distance,  in German written 
> without spaces as one word)
> 
> Because VON is much longer in Morse code compared with DE, hence 
> not better, it was shorted to V

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