Comment on phonetic alphabet
Reygle@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Lol - “Q as in Queue” hahahaha I bet someone thinks this is official enough to use.
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
Xray
Yankee
Zulu
I used to work for phone support. First day when I thought I can use the alphabet like pro, then granny and auntie callers complained they don’t know that military shit.
I have always pronounced Quebec like “kebek.” Many US callers didn’t understand it until it’s like “cuebek”. So I started pronouncing like so. Many US callers didn’t understand it until it’s “kebek”.
Fuck this shit.
Its cute that romeo and juliet live forever in the phonetic alphabet like this
It sure is!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
The spelling is actually also important for non-english speakers.
Alpha is hard to pronounce if you aren’t familiar with English ph, so it should be an F.
Juliet should have two T’s to ensure romance language speakers pronounce the T.
If Q as in Queue bothers you, you better check what C stands for.
Same for D. And Y. And W.
C is especially bad because Cue pronounced the same as Queue (if my English isn’t too bad). The others are at least consisted once you accepted the absurdity. Also you forgot S in your list
Big outs to The Bloodhound Gang
m as in mancy n as in bike.
I was on a call earlier with a business and they said S as in Sam. I wanted to correct them, but I thought it wasn’t worth it.
Many of these are two distinct syllables, so even if you get a broken transmission, it’s still intelligible.
CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
After having to learn these for work years ago, my life got a lot easier. Bad phone call? Phonetics, precise radio comms.? Phonetics. Just works, should be taught in every school.
melfie@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
I find myself on the phone trying to spell something and come up with words that begin with each letter. Agreed that it’s a solved problem and everyone should just learn it.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
I taught myself by playing a license plate game, referring to the cars around me by their phonetic license plates “what’re you doing bravo whiskey foxtrot foxtrot? You’re turning right but indicating left!” It makes road rage more fun.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The made up shit is so much more fun tho