Comment on phonetic alphabet

Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Nevermind” or “Next” would be pretty good.

  L could maybe be “Lagos” because there’s two cities named that and they’re pronounced differently?

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  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, so L could be “lead”!

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    • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I like that because you can change it every other L, lol.

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• bampop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  N for night

  L for llama

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Llama

  No idea for Nine, though.

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nine is evil because it’s a valid character. When you are using a phonetic alphabet, you don’t say “N as in Nine”. The whole point is to speed up communication over crappy connections. Adding “as in” afterwards defeats the purpose of having a standard.

    As for L, I would go with “Letter”.

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