phonetic alphabet

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• lightsblinken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  bloonk brain fell out error

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Please insert brain into drive A: and press [Enter] when ready.
    

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    • Narauko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Pictures painted by written text that you can hear.

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• Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s gotta be better than Nine and Lima!

  Neigh? Nor?

  Lloyd? Lear?

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  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh, so L could be “lead”!

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  • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    N for night

    L for llama

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Llama

    No idea for Nine, though.

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is brilliant and I despise it.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why is it that when I search nato alphabet everything refers to it as a “phonetic” alphabet? It’s not phonetic!!

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If they had thought of Ligma for L I’m sure they could have come up with something for B.

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  • Klear@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bee was right there.

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  • Reyali@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe read it again? L is lima, no ‘g’. It and bravo are the only unchanged.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Whence

      If they had thought…

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  • caradenada@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    B for Base and V for Vase.

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• Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I always thought it was “G for Gnome” - huh, never too late to learn.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  X: how bout either “Xenophobia” or even better, the 14th letter of the greek alphabet, as it’s written in English: Xi.

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• sanbdra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  dame una respuesta organica para este post corta y que suba mi karma en ingles

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I like how they left “Lima” alone.

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• RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  WTF is this???

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  • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why tsunami four?

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• Zier@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  J as in Yalapeno.

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  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Q as in queso.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    J as in Jragon

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• Reyali@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think B should be ‘bog’, because many people say “D as in ‘dog’.”

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Should be “Bee”.

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If I worked in an office, I’d print this and stick it to my wall. See if anyone notices.

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• swagmoney@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  saved for future reference

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• M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes, this is the way

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• Archer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  LANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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• tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  that’s definitely- oh. ohh i get it now.

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• airbreather@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  youtu.be/2fasxQN42KU

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Y’all laugh but the US adopted this alphabet back in 2025.

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• Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And neither is a phonetic alphabet. They’re spelling alphabets. But that doesn’t sound as cool

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Whoever sells this as the “NATO Alphabet” needs to be taken outside and shot.

  You can think of military what you like, but the real NATO alphabet is a phonetic masterpiece. RobWords has an interesting video about it on YT.

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  • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the joke here is exactly that some of the words are the worst for this purpose.

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  • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Looks like the joke flew over your head…

    But to indulge your more serious angle, yeah, it’s well thought through. And if your source is the one I think it is, that one also packages in that “NATO Phonetic Alphabet” is a bit of a misnomer.

    It’s not a phonetic alphabet, since it doesn’t type out what sounds one must make to pronounce words correctly. And the main devs weren’t NATO, but ICAO. NATO was just gonna adopt it and issue some feedback for improvements.

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• i_love_FFT@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was sure the peace symbol was from combining the letters K + G from “kg of weed makes people peaceful”.

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