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pagers do not cost muchthese days. people really should have them, so their friends canfind them. i also think people should all have cell phones, but manyare not ready to invest in one. so people really oughtto learn pager code. using pager code, you can send messagesto your friends immediately. sometimes it takes more than onecall to complete your message, but it still allows for more efficent communication.below, i provide the alphabet as i know it:

letter	code	alternate
a	6	8
b	8
c	5	0
d	0
e	3
f	3
g	9	6
h	4
i	1
j	7
k	15
l	7	1
m	177
n	17
o	0
p	9
q	9	0
r	12
s	5
t	7
u	11	4
v	11	4
w	111	44
x	22
y	4
z	2
-	-
?	2
!	1
.	-

examples:

83170 = beno

123604 = ready

017 1774 11164 = on my way

sometimesyou will need to simplify your sentences, especially when the context isgiven.

example: beno tells ken, "if you are comingto berkeley page "yes" (435), if not, page "no go" (170 90).

sometimesthe easiest way to communicate is to use the widely accepted non-alphabeticalcodes:

message	code
i love you	1-4-3
thinking of you	8-2-3
where are you?	411
emergency	911

82 = fast or hurry because 82 in koreanis pal yi, which sounds like bbal li, which means fast. uhm,it's sorta hard to explain, but the 'bb' phoneme n' the 'p' phoneme r writtendifferently but sound alike.

alwaysremember to leave your code, if you have one!

example: beno's codeis 10, so he will end his message with a "-10."

017 1774 11164-10= on my way, from beno

170 90-55 = not comingfrom ken

0118862 952-4374-01= call me back at 011 8862 952-4374 (a taiwanese phone number), from owen

onceyou learn to use pager codes, you can use your pager as a memory deviceby paging yourself messages which you can carry with you on your pager!

you can remind yourselfof addresses, things to do, prices, and even phone numbers!well, you can remind yourself of lots of things.

rodrigo lagos has a really kewl websitewith a alfa to numerical converter which can help you page yourfriends! check out this site!

[24 august, 1998]i think the pager industry is trying to destroy pager codes.the new motorola ads push for word pagers. pagenet now makes "**"= "--" instead of " ". it's all a big conspiracy!

new additions!

in uc berkeley's anthropolgy160, professor alan dundes tells his students that pager codes and pageralphabets are a form of folklore; meaning they are oral tradition.one friend tells another to do it this way and that way. sopager codes and alphabets have multiple existence in different subculturesand variations between each existence. and every differentgroup has an explanation and justification for their method and tradition.in my chart, i display the alphabet i use and ones my friends usewhen they page me. i learned most of my pager folklore fromkenneth lee and owen chang, and tobias jaw tried to influence me with hisline of reasoning. in the end, i chose what i felt made sense.we don't all talk with the same jargon, accent, or tone; not everyone usesthe same pager alphabet and codes. tell me what you use!

From: DYYHard@webtv.net(Devon dyyhard)
Date: Sat, 18Oct 1997 02:56:06 -0700
To: beno@uclink.berkeley.edu
Subject: pagercode

4 = F

thanks, devon!if anyone has other additions e-mail

beno@ocf.berkeley.edu

immediately!

From: LuCkYGiNa@aol.com
Date: Sat, 1Nov 1997 13:27:39 -0500 (EST)
To: beno@uclink.berkeley.edu
Subject: pagercode ?
X-Status:

i recently gotpaged with the code 711..what does this mean?

a friend brandonyoe (yoe@uclink.berkeley.edu)just told me that "711" is a lesser versionof "911," meaning your friend has something important but not an emergency.brandon _claims_ to have invented this... he said he used to use "311"but 311 is an actual phone number in the 408 (san jose area) nowadays.

i also have afriend who uses "411" for the same purpose.

kewl,
beno

From: LuCkYGiNa
Date: Thu, 6Nov 1997 19:53:19 EST
To: beno@uclink.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re:pager code ?
Organization:AOL (http://www.aol.com)

thanx a bunch!
Gina

From: LiLWsTSydR
Date: Thu, 6Nov 1997 17:10:38 EST
To: beno@uclink.berkeley.edu
Subject: whois this
Organization:AOL (http://www.aol.com)
X-Status:

how did you learnall that pager coding stuff

you go to Berkely?thats cool, i wanna go there

what year areyou in

well, e-mailme back

Date: Wed, 27Sep 2000 04:36:52 GMT From: Tifany ........ <qt_4_yall@hotmail.com> To: beno@OCF.Berkeley.EDU Subject: heres more

hi i think these below could be another number to. b= 13 or 10 d= 01 f= 7 h= 11 but i do prefer 4 like u but just trin 2 make somthin else. k= 21 m= 111 n= 2 p= 10 q= 01 t= 7 but i think 7 is way better v= 7 x= 72 or 77 y= 71 z= i think could probebly be a 7 or 71? bye

<3~ChristianA~<3

From: UNCHeelz20@aol.com
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:27:09 EST
Subject: pager code
To: beno@OCF.Berkeley.EDU

637 and 727 mean "always and forever" in frisco