morse code for the dots that had been changed (the reader is left to figure out what is a dash and what is a dot)
$!!!!!$!@@@!$!!!!!$@!$!@@@!$@!!!!$!!!!!$!@@@$@!$!@@@$!@!!$@!$!@@@!$@@@!!$!@@@@$@!!$!!!$@!!$@@!!@$
this translated into: 0-0A-10BABYA-36WOWĐ
not that this would make much of a difference, but i converted punctuation differently using the wikipedia article:
0 = 0a = 10babya = 36wow? o
Yeah, I was working off of a vaguely questionable table that I downloaded a few days ago. There's all sorts of weird Morse variants out there. Alphanumeric is consistent across the board but the rest is a bit of a crapshoot. For the purpose of the puzzle I assume wikipedia is safest.