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America's Most Secret Spy Sub Returned To Base Flying A Pirate Flag. On Monday, the USS Jimmy Carter returned home to Naval Base Kitsap- Bangor, Washington flying a Jolly Roger flag beside the American flag. The Jimmy Carter is America’s most secret submarine, equipped like no other for special missions and the covert gathering of intelligence. The Jolly Roger indicated it had successfully done something.

But what? We may never know. Flying a Jolly Roger flag, black with a skull and crossbones (though it appears the bones could be cutlasses instead on this flag) is indicative of a successful mission, but, befitting its reputation, no information was released about what the USS Jimmy Carter’s latest mission might have been. This is not the first time the USS Jimmy Carter has been spotted flying the Pirate flag upon returning to port. In April of this year, official Navy photos also show the boat returning to home port with the same flag being flown from the sail. The use of the Jolly Roger on a submarine can be traced back to the submarines of the Royal Navy, who first used the flag in 1.

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World War I. Lieutenant Commander Max Horton commanded HMS E9 and sank a German vessel in the North Sea off Heligoland. It was the Royal Navy’s first kill by a submarine.

Remembering a derogatory comment from the officer in charge of the Navy who viewed submarines and their crews as nothing but “pirates” Horton ordered a Jolly Roger flag to be stitched together so that it could be flown upon return to homeport. Thus, a naval tradition was created. British submarines have flown the Jolly Roger ever since upon returning from a successful war patrol, especially during World War II. Even HMS Conqueror flew the Jolly Roger upon returning to the UK in 1. Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War.

This is not the first time the USS Jimmy Carter has been spotted flying the Pirate flag upon returning to port. In April of this year, official Navy photos also show. Here’s Linus Tech Tips with a chiropractor’s dream: playing a single PC game across 16 monitors at the same time.

American submarines, though, have traditionally used another symbol to indicate a successful patrol: The display of a broom with the bristles pointing upward indicated a “clean sweep” had occurred. In wartime, that meant that the submarine was able to sink every target it engaged during its war patrol. USS Cheyenne flew the broom when she returned to Pearl Harbor in early 2. Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Cheyenne fired her entire complement of Tomahawk cruise missiles and was the first vessel to fire the missile in that operation. USS Jimmy Carter is the last of the Seawolf- class of submarines though she is much different than her sisters. At 4. 53 feet in length, Carter is 1. This extra length is the Multi Mission Platform, or MMP. The MMP is quite unique in that it contains extra space for storage of mission critical items, such as Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and—most likely—manned submersibles as well to facilitate a variety of undersea missions such as commando insertion or deploying personnel to operate around submerged equipment the submarine is interested in. Carter also is equipped with a set of precision thrusters that are located fore and aft on the submarine. These allow the boat to remain steady while conducting its missions, especially when operating close to shore where water currents could play havoc with such a large submarine as the Carter.

America has deployed several heavily- modified submarines that conducted these types of special missions: USS Halibut, USS Seawolf, USS Richard B. Russell, USS Parche and the NR1. The value of these types of submarines can hardly be overestimated. During the Cold War, for example, USS Parche tapped Soviet undersea cables in the Far East, placing recording devices to monitor Soviet communications in a program called Ivy Bells. The USS Jimmy Carter was reported to have flown a drone over North Korea in 2. North Korean and South Korean artillery were firing at each other.

But exactly what the Jimmy Carter is doing is near impossible to say. As a former submariner, though, I can only imagine the how pleased the sailors on board must be. While flying the Jolly Roger upon returning to port is not something entirely unique, it does have great significance, so Bravo Zulu to those guys. Expect that significance to be a closely guarded one.

Chinese characters - Wikipedia. Unless otherwise specified, Chinese text in this article is written in the format (Simplified Chinese / Traditional Chinese; Pinyin). If the Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters are identical, they are written only once. For the species of moth known as "Chinese Character", see Cilix glaucata. Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and some other Asian languages.

In Standard Chinese, they are called hanzi (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字, lit "Han characters").[2][3][4] They have been adapted to write a number of other languages, including Japanese, where they are known as kanji (漢字); Korean, where they are known as hanja (漢字); and Vietnamese, in a system known as chữ Nôm. Collectively, they are known as CJK characters.

Chinese characters constitute the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world.[5] By virtue of their widespread current use in East Asia, and historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world by number of users. Chinese characters number in the tens of thousands, though most of them are minor graphic variants encountered only in historical texts. Studies in China have shown that functional literacy in written Chinese requires a knowledge of between three and four thousand characters. In Japan, 2,1. 36 are taught through secondary school (the Jōyō kanji); hundreds more are in everyday use.

The characters used in Japan are distinct from those used in China in many respects. There are various national standard lists of characters, forms, and pronunciations. Simplified forms of certain characters are used in mainland China, Singapore, and Malaysia; the corresponding traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and to a limited extent in South Korea. In Japan, common characters are written in post- WWII Japan- specific simplified forms (shinjitai), which are closer to traditional forms than Chinese simplifications, while uncommon characters are written in Japanese traditional forms (kyūjitai), which are virtually identical to Chinese traditional forms. In South Korea, when Chinese characters are used they are of the traditional variant and are almost identical to those used in places like Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Teaching of Chinese characters in South Korea starts in the 7th grade and continues until the 1. In Old Chinese (and Classical Chinese, which is based on it), most words were monosyllabic and there was a close correspondence between characters and words. In modern Chinese (esp. Mandarin Chinese), characters do not necessarily correspond to words; indeed the majority of Chinese words today consist of two or more characters because of the merging and loss of sounds in the Chinese language over time.[7] Rather, a character almost always corresponds to a single syllable that is also a morpheme.[8] However, there are a few exceptions to this general correspondence, including bisyllabic morphemes (written with two characters), bimorphemic syllables (written with two characters) and cases where a single character represents a polysyllabic word or phrase.[9]Modern Chinese has many homophones; thus the same spoken syllable may be represented by many characters, depending on meaning. A single character may also have a range of meanings, or sometimes quite distinct meanings; occasionally these correspond to different pronunciations.

Cognates in the several varieties of Chinese are generally written with the same character. They typically have similar meanings, but often quite different pronunciations. In other languages, most significantly today in Japanese and sometimes in Korean, characters are used to represent Chinese loanwords, to represent native words independently of the Chinese pronunciation (e.

Japanese), and as purely phonetic elements based on their pronunciation in the historical variety of Chinese from which they were acquired. These foreign adaptations of Chinese pronunciation are known as Sino- Xenic pronunciations and have been useful in the reconstruction of Middle Chinese. Watch My Brother The Devil Online Full Movie more.

Function[edit]When the script was first used in the late 2nd millennium BC, words of Old Chinese were generally monosyllabic, and each character denoted a single word. Increasing numbers of polysyllabic words have entered the language from the Western Zhou period to the present day. It is estimated that about 2. Warring States period was polysyllabic, though these words were used far less commonly than monosyllables, which accounted for 8. The process has accelerated over the centuries as phonetic change has increased the number of homophones.

It has been estimated that over two thirds of the 3,0. Standard Chinese are polysyllables, the vast majority of those being disyllables. Watch Whisper Of The Heart Online Metacritic here.

The most common process has been to form compounds of existing words, written with the characters of the constituent words. Words have also been created by adding affixes, reduplication and borrowing from other languages. Polysyllabic words are generally written with one character per syllable.[b] In most cases the character denotes a morpheme descended from an Old Chinese word. Many characters have multiple readings, with instances denoting different morphemes, sometimes with different pronunciations. In modern Standard Chinese, one fifth of the 2,4. For the 5. 00 most common characters, the proportion rises to 3. Often these readings are similar in sound and related in meaning.

In the Old Chinese period, affixes could be added to a word to form a new word, which was often written with the same character. In many cases the pronunciations diverged due to subsequent sound change. For example, many additional readings have the Middle Chinese departing tone, the major source of the 4th tone in modern Standard Chinese.

Scholars now believe that this tone is the reflex of an Old Chinese *- s suffix, with a range of semantic functions. For example,传/傳 has readings OC *drjon > MC drjwen > Mod. H > zhuàn 'a record'. Middle Chinese forms are given in Baxter's transcription, in which H denotes the departing tone.)磨 has readings *maj > ma > mó 'to grind' and *majs > ma. H > mò 'grindstone'.宿 has readings *sjuk > sjuwk > sù 'to stay overnight' and *sjuks > sjuw. H > xiù 'celestial "mansion"'.说/説 has readings *hljot > sywet > shuō 'speak' and *hljots > sywej.

H > shuì 'exhort'. Another common alternation is between voiced and voiceless initials (though the voicing distinction has disappeared on most modern varieties). This is believed to reflect an ancient prefix, but scholars disagree on whether the voiced or voiceless form is the original root. For example,见/見 has readings *kens > ken.

H > jiàn 'to see' and *gens > hen. H > xiàn 'to appear'.败/敗 has readings *prats > pæj. H > bài 'to defeat' and *brats > bæj. H > bài 'to be defeated'. In this case the pronunciations have converged in Standard Chinese, but not in some other varieties.)折 has readings *tjat > tsyet > zhé 'to bend' and *djat > dzyet > shé 'to break'. Principles of formation[edit]. Excerpt from a 1.

Chinese characters. Sun. Mountain. Elephant.

Evolution of Pictograms. Chinese characters represent words of the language using several strategies. A few characters, including some of the most commonly used, were originally pictograms, which depicted the objects denoted, or ideograms, in which meaning was expressed iconically. The vast majority were written using the rebus principle, in which a character for a similarly sounding word was either simply borrowed or (more commonly) extended with a disambiguating semantic marker to form a phono- semantic compound character. The traditional six- fold classification (liùshū六书 / 六書 "six writings") was first described by the scholar Xu Shen in the postface of his dictionary Shuowen Jiezi in 1.