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← Lugagne Codebook
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Code International Lugagne
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The books were widely used for international telegraphy and were printed
in large quantities. Yet each copy was numbered individually and was carefully
registered. The book shown in the image on the right has serial number 22644.
In order to allow the government to intercept and read the traffic that
was encoded with this book, a copy had to be submitted to the PTT 1
of each country in which the book was used.
This was necessary as the transmission of coded messages through radio
channels was otherwise prohibited, something that is still the case today.
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The book contains a large collection of words, phrases and common expressions
that have been abbreviated to just three letters.
What makes the book special compared
to other code books of the era, is that each expression is supplied in
seven different languages: French, German, English, Spanish, Portugese,
Italian and even Esperanto 2 ,
the constructed language that was once aimed to become the international
language. Esperanto is still used today, even on Wikipedia [1].
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PTT = Post, Telegraphy and Telecommunication. Before the days of
privatization of the telecom branche, most countries had a state-owned
telecom operator, generally identified as PTT, Post Office (PO) or similar.
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Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary
language in the world. It was developed by the Polish ophonthalmogist
Zamenhof in the late 1870s and was aimed to be easy to learn and politically
neutral [1].
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