Comment on phonetic alphabet

absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  information age

  How many of these characters predate it by several decades?

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aladddin and Rapunzel definitely, I think those predate Disney.

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  • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The idea isn’t that the characters are new, it’s that the names are more widespread than something like the Foxtrot dance, which many people alive today have never heard of.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  reported for having Lilo instead of Luigi and Waldo instead of Waluigi

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