wat the hell do sos mean????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Question

no i mean from the rihanna song sos wat does that mean?

Answer 1

The international Morse code distress signal, S.O.S., is one of the "words" with a false acronymic origin.

S.O.S. does not stand for Save Our Souls, Save Our Ship, Stop Other Signals, Sure Of Sinking, or any other phrase.

S.O.S. was chosen as the universal distress signal by the International Radio Telegraph Convention of July 1908 because this combination of three dots followed by three dashes followed by three dots (...---...), was easy to send and easily recognized, especially since they were usually sent as a nine-character signal, which stood out against the background of three-character Morse Code letters. The letters themselves are meaningless.

The first recorded mention of the false acronymic origin is in reference to the Titanic sinking of 1912, which may account for its wide spread and endurance.

Prior to 1908, the high seas distress signal consisted of the letters C.Q.D., which many took it to mean Come Quickly, Danger. Actually this term is a combination of the letters C & Q, the standard radio hail meaning essentially "calling all stations" or "is anyone out there?" and the nonsense letter D. Some suppose that the D stands for distress, but this is not documented. Use of C.Q.D. continued past 1908, and the Titanic's initial distress calls used this older signal. It was not until that ship was near sinking did the radiomen send out the new signal.

Answer 2

Save Our Souls

Answer 3

From the beginning, the SOS distress signal has actually consisted of a continuous sequence of three-dits/three-dahs/three-dits, all run together without letter spacing. In International Morse Code, three dits form the letter S, and three dahs make the letter O, so "SOS" became an easy way to remember the correct order of the dits and dahs. In modern terminology, SOS is a "procedural signal" or "prosign", and the formal way to show that there are no internal spaces when it is sent is to write it with a bar above the letters, i.e. .)

In popular usage, SOS became associated with phrases such as "Save Our Souls". However, these phrases were a later development, most likely used to help remember the correct letters — something known as a backronym.

Answer 4

save our souls??? hardly...

Save Our Ship... But not really. SOS was originally an early distress signal that really had no meaning- except to be a regulated distress signal that would be easily recognized internationally as a call for help by an ship in distress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS

Obviously the letters S.O.S can then be transcribed to include other words to apply to other meanigs:

S.O.S. scouring pads = Save Our Sinks


Save Our Streams
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~sos-iwla/Stream-Study/StreamStudyHomePage/StreamStudy.HTML

Share Our Strength
http://www.strength.org/

Save Our Schools
http://www.soschools.org/

and so on... just google sos- you'll get everything these days.

Answer 5

Save our Souls

Answer 6

Save Our Ships!

Answer 7

In the early days of radio, (early 1900s) Morse code was used to transmit messages. Shipping was an early user of radio and the Morse code: _ _ _ . . . _ _ _ or "S O S" became the standard distress call sign being an acronym for "Save Our Souls"

Answer 8

depending on what you mean, if you are thinking about the original meaning (and not the sappy, we're all heathens Christian, save our souls crap) it was a code invented by Morse about 100 years ago and was first used on the Titanic after it struck an ice berg in the north atlantic in April of 1912. SOS originally meant, Save Our Ship and is written in Morse code as : "... ---..." and sounds kind of like this, "blip blip blip, blooo blooo blooo. blip blip blip", the blips being the "S's" and the blooos being the "O's"

Answer 9

As far as am concerned sos means "Save Our Souls".Its an organisation that helps Orphans.

Answer 10

The original version of this was Save our Son. The inventor of SOS soap pads was a vacume cleaner salesman in the 40's and he used to give out perfume samples to his potential clients to get them to let him into their houses for a demonstration. After awhile, he was going broke because the ladies only wanted the perfume. Well, like most really interesting inventions, he accidentally discovered how to make liquid soap dry on a steel wool pad. He was working on a project in his work shop basement and left soap on a steel wool pad overnight, then tried to use it again the next day. He found the soap refreshed with water. So, he started making SOS soap pads to give to the potential clients to get them to let him in for a demo. After some time, word got out and ladies were calling him for the soap pads instead of the vacumes! He put all his money into making them and his wife named the product SOS for "save our son" because she hoped the invention would pay for their sons upbringing and college.

It worked!

SOS is also a military term...Single Operation System

See the following site. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-31,GWYA:en&defl=en&q=define:SOS&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title