What does SOS stands for us and for animal?
2006-07-15 04:18:41 · 18 answers · asked by a V a 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I read "The 100 & 1 Dalmatians" before and inside the dog understand SOS as "Save Our Skins"! Knida funny right? Juz to share
2006-07-15 04:23:56 · update #1
SOS is a universal distress signal and does NOT stand for any specific words. It is used because in Morse code the letters are easily transmittable and difficult to misinterpret:
In 1904, the Marconi company suggested the use of "CQD" for a distress signal. Although generally accepted to mean, "Come Quick Danger," that is not the case. It is a general call, "CQ," followed by "D," meaning distress. A strict interpretation would be "All stations, Distress."
At the second Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference 1906, the subject of a danger signal was again addressed. Considerable discussion ensued and finally SOS was adopted. The thinking was that three dots, three dashes and three dots could not be misinterpreted. It was to be sent together as one string.
The Marconi Yearbook of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony , 1918 states, "This signal [SOS] was adopted simply on account of its easy radiation and its unmistakable character. There is no special signification in the letter themselves, and it is entirely incorrect to put full stops between them [the letters]." All the popular interpretations of "SOS," "Save or Ship," "Save Our Souls," or "Send Out Succour" are simply not valid. Stations hearing this distress call were to immediately cease handling traffic until the emergency was over and were likewise bound to answer the distress signal.
2006-07-15 04:28:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not believe anyone that tells you that SOS stands for "Save our souls" or "Save our ships". It is a myth, anyone who asked is always given these incorrect responses so now everyone is walking around with the wrong answer. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM!
SOS does not stand for anything. The letters S and O were chosen because they are the easiest to type in Morse code. S = 3 dots and O = 3 dashes. So SOS in Morse looks like this:
. . . - - - . . .
As for animals. Animals cannot type Morse code anyway, so they couldn't do any kind of SOS. But even if they could, there is no special animal SOS. The regular SOS is for any emergency rescue. It could be a fire, a flood, or someone could have fallen in a well, it doesn't make a difference.
2006-07-15 04:25:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save Our Souls, Save Our Ship
2006-07-15 05:35:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, SOS stands for SAVE OUR SOULS, but many people misinterpret it as ship. The problem with that is, then planes wouldn't be using it in times for distress.
If SOS stood for an animal, it would probably mean save our Sharks, Snakes, Sheep, Sparrows, Sloths, Swan, or something like that! ;)
2006-07-15 04:28:46 · answer #4 · answered by Mandy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOS stands for Save Our Souls.
2006-07-15 04:22:08 · answer #5 · answered by slick_geek 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no longer likely to disagree with the actuality that biologically we are actually not something yet animals. yet even interior the evolutionary experience we've long developed remote from being mere animals. (and that i dont have faith in evolution) i visit declare that mankind is extra beneficial than purely some animal... We rationalize, genuinely think of for ourselves and not persist with some pre programed instincts. Create purely for the sake of coming up. This issues didnt incorporate only inteligence on my own. those are the markings of a very divergent advent.
2016-11-02 02:50:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want an animal, it would have to be a cow since Chipped beef on Toast is also known as $hit in a shingle ... or SOS. Other than that there are various terms SOS stands for at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.S
According to Wiktionary at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/SOS it doesn't stand for "save our ship" or "save our souls" in Morse Code, it was just an easy to remember and easy to transmit sequence of three dots three dashes and three dots.
2006-07-15 04:47:46 · answer #7 · answered by Somewhere in Iraq 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOS was actually an invented term by sailors (with no apparent meaning) which they would signal out with telegraph machines to message distress. Lately it was abbrevated as Short Of Sight/Save Our Souls/Save Our Ship.
2006-07-19 00:03:33 · answer #8 · answered by sun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOS stands for "Save our Ship" and is ususally used in morse code to indicate a mayday call from a ship.
2006-07-15 04:22:06 · answer #9 · answered by Danielle K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sumatran Orangutan Society (Really, look it up!)
Probably you are talking about Save Our Ship
2006-07-15 07:50:16 · answer #10 · answered by bkripley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋