2006-09-25 07:08:02 · 5 answers · asked by Ale 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Comes from the military many years ago when they would send encoded messages via Morse Code. The radio operator would first have to copy the entire message encoded! Then using the key of they day, they could decipher it. So the person sending the message would ask “do you copy?”. Effectively asking “do you need me to repeat the message?”. The response would usually be “copy”, or “I copy”. Of course in Morse Code to say anything takes time so they wanted to communicate quickly and thus used the word copy vs understand. Even the skill of being able to understand the code is called “copy”.
2006-09-25 07:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by zeck98 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The military
2006-09-25 07:10:16 · answer #2 · answered by misskate12001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CB Radio jargon..
2006-09-25 07:15:09 · answer #3 · answered by limgrn_maria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CB radios
2006-09-25 07:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you understand? Do you hear the message?
CB Talk.
2006-09-25 07:12:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋