2007-07-29 16:27:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Nothing. It has no meaning. It was chosen for the rapid way it could be tapped out on morse code
2007-07-29 18:34:26 · answer #1 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Morse code, SOS is three dots, three dashes, three dots.
The letters SOS have been variously rendered as Save Our Ship, or sometimes Save Our Souls. It is likely that these verbalizations came after the fact. Early telegraphers chose the combination because it was easily sent and recognized by even non-telegraphers.
From The American Heritage Dictionary:
: S O S
1. The letters represented by the radiotelegraphic signal . . . _ _ _ . . . , used internationally as a distress signal, particularly by ships and aircraft.
2. Any call or signal for help.
So if you found the phrase "our SOS" in a context where Definition #2 makes sense, that's what it means. "Nobody responded to our SOS" means "Nobody helped us when we asked."
2007-08-02 14:52:10 · answer #2 · answered by Dominicks Granny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save Our Ship.
2007-07-29 16:34:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save Our Souls! It just means 'emergency', and help needed! Ships make the SOS message from sea, when they need emergency help: doctors write in their prescriptions, "to be taken SOS", to mean that the medicine prescribed should be taken only if certain symptoms occur, and in emergency, and not otherwise.......and, so on!
2007-07-29 19:53:26 · answer #4 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't mean anything. It was picked because it's easy to remember three dots, three dashes, and then three dots again.
And Mayday comes from the French m'aidez, which means "help me."
2007-07-30 03:41:02 · answer #5 · answered by VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During my career in the Navy, it meant "Save Our Ship".
It is a distress signal.
2007-08-02 11:41:09 · answer #6 · answered by Fritz Milan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOS means save our soul
you didnt ask anything more about it thats why i have just given what you asked
bye
2007-07-30 00:51:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
S.O.S. has been said to mean "Save Our Ship." While it may fit, it is not exactly true. S.O.S. was chosen because it was easy to remember and broadcast in Morse Code -- dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot. (Or was it dash dash dash, dot dot dot, dash dash dash?) Either way, that's the original reason.
2007-07-29 16:38:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is debatable, while some think it is "save our ship" others think it is "save our souls." Either way the point gets across.
2007-07-29 17:50:51 · answer #9 · answered by Davy D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Save Our Sh it!" hahaha JOKES!
It means:
Save Our Souls
and/or
Save Our Ship
2007-07-29 21:33:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋