{"id":18796,"date":"2020-02-08T18:15:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18796"},"modified":"2020-02-08T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T18:15:06","slug":"the-secret-language-of-basses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18796","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Language of Basses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sing bass in several choirs, and quite a few of the bass parts involve us going dm dm dm, or do do do, or something similar. Until recently I thought it was just meaningless sounds we were making, and that maybe the composers \/ arrangers of the songs just couldn&#8217;t be bothered to write words for us basses.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can exclusively reveal here that I have uncovered the <strong>Secret Language of Basses<\/strong>. They are not in fact meaningless sounds, but actually hidden messages in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/morsecode.htm\">Morse Code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively they might be in a secret constructed language known only to a few composers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sing bass in several choirs, and quite a few of the bass parts involve us going dm dm dm, or do do do, or something similar. Until recently I thought it was just meaningless sounds we were making, and that maybe the composers \/ arrangers of the songs just couldn&#8217;t be bothered to write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,29,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-music","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18800,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796\/revisions\/18800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}