Bug#652526: [BTS#652526] templates://unixcw/{cwcp.templates,cw.templates} : Final update for English review

["Jeffrey Austen" <JAusten@tntech.edu>]

>From: Christian PERRIER [mailto:bubulle@debian.org]
>Sent: Tue 2012-01-10 12:57
>To: Kamil Ignacak
>Cc: 652526@bugs.debian.org; debian-l10n-english@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Bug#652526: [BTS#652526] templates://unixcw/{cwcp.templates,cw.templates} : Final update for English review
> 
>Quoting Kamil Ignacak (acerion@wp.pl):
>
>> - The unixcw project provides support for learning to use Morse code
>> - over Continuous Wave radio.
>> + The unixcw project provides support for learning Morse code (CW).
>> 
>> It's simple, shorter, uses common abbreviation instead of unused
>> long form, and suggests where "cw" in package's name comes from.
>
>How about "for learning Morse code (CW: Continuous Wave)"?
>
>After all, people have the right to know where acronyms come
>from. Also, people who might use the package might not be hamr radio
>specialists and be itnerested in understanding what this mysterious
>"cw" stands for.
>
>
>
>Would that fit?

The term Continuous Wave is an anachronism from the days of spark gap transmitters. However, the abbreviation CW is still commonly used for Morse code. (Side note: when communicating using Morse code many abbreviations are used in order to speed up the communication. Think of it as a crude form of data compression.) From a technical point of view, Morse code is not CW because the wave is interrupted - switched on and off - so the transmitted waveform is not continuous. I think that the first form "for learning Morse code (CW)" or a variation "for learning Morse code (also known as CW)" is preferable.

Jeff