Comment on Everyday, as an American
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe conversion is pretty much the only hurdle I ever hear about, but that’s easy enough. How many songs/films talk about “if I could rewind the last 12+12 hours”…it’s just a matter of making it fit in context people can understand when they know a day is 24 but are used to 12.
ISO and while we’re at it, the NATO phonetic alphabet for English speakers. “A as in apple B as in boy” means fuck all when you’re grasping for any word that starts with that letter, and if English isn’t your first language fuckin forget about it.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 weeks ago
err… didn’t get what you’re trying to say
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 weeks ago
The radio words were chosen to be distinct, such that for people who trained in them, it would be easier to distinguish letters being spoken over low quality radio.
Not very relevant in the era of 2G HD audio, and now VoLTE.
But when there’s a bad signal and you have to tell someone a callsign, it makes sense.
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FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We standardized an alphabet among all countries for clear communication.
Here is an example of it going wrong.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I knew this would be the video. 😂
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure that’s an example of why you should use the chosen ones instead of going “mancy/nancy” all over the place.
Also, didn’t they just make a standard for themselves and other just took it because it was probably easier than making one for their own language (oh right, NATO… but let’s be honest here, NATO is just a forum for America to flaunt its power while PR-ing peaceful, so it makes sense they use English, which is also easier to be a second language than most other ones).
Though I feel like China might have made their own.
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