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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How does one distinguish between "Tea" and "X"?

Both are dash dot dot dash.

Are there gaps between words or letters?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

International Morse code is composed of five elements:

short mark, dot or dit: "dit duration" is one time unit long
long mark, dash or dah: three time units long
inter-element gap between the dits and dahs within a character: one dot duration or one unit long
short gap (between letters): three time units long
medium gap (between words): seven time units long (formerly five)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

So in between every sound is a silent dot, between letter a silent dash, and every word ~2 silent dashes