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My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, “Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django”.
Sounds a little… unchained
Bingo Bango Bongo
Day made thank you.
I once had a client tell me, “T as in… T.”
Yeah, that was helpful.
I mean surely it was “T as in Tea”
Or maybe “T as in Tee”
Maybe it was in their mind. But those are still phonetically the same, and similar to P, E, C, etc.
T as in Tardigrade
Woooosh
M as in Mancy
You of all people, Ray
I can remember one time:
“P for Potato”,
“B for… err… i dunno, Botato?”.
Potato
Botato
Brother the explicit purpose of the phonetic alphabet is to make all of the letters audibly distinguishable by ensuring none of them rhyme
Boh-tah-toe
Good point Cotato and Kotato would certainly be a problem.
Bruh… It’s P for “pterodactyl”.
Brotato
Love my copy of “P is for Pterodactyl”. Great book, very uneducational.
E for Eye
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"Oh my bad, my bad …
B for bomb. T for twin towers. N for nine eleven was a inside job."
I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.
The police rang my house once, and he told me where I could reach them, and spelled out his name. I started writing his name out, but by the fourth name, I was thinking wtf is going on. This guy was spelling out his name by using names for each letter. A for Alex, B for Bob.
Afer Alex, Beefer Bob, who the fuck are all these people?
Was his name Abraham?
I had too many customers get confused when I asked, “and that is pudenda spelled P as in Papa, U as in Uniform…” customer interrupts, “why are you talking like a radio?”
Had a regular that would spell it in NATO, and said he served in artillery. Heard just fine on his good ear, tinittus was just a low hum.
Why are we all not talking like radios??
I’m all about that NATO phonetic alphabet - which for some reason rubs certain people answering phones the wrong way.
Can’t say I don’t have a couple substitutions, though (Zebra instead of Zulu, Sam instead of Sierra, Frank instead of Foxtrot), but it’s not like I’m working the radio of an aircraft or something.
Sam and Frank are quite similar
Unrecognisable letter - a - m or n, very similar - unrecognisable could be both (say when it’s loud and you’re talking)
Sierra and Foxtrot are very different and that’s what matters
Bam, Cam, Dam, Fam, Ham, Jam, Lam(b), Ma’am, Pam, Ram, W(h)am
Bank, Dank, Gank, Hank, Jank, Lank, Rank, Sank, Tank, Wank
Yeah… not great options, those.
Bam, Cam, Dam, Fam, Ham, Jam, Lam(b), Ma’am, Pam, Ram, W(h)am
Whoa, Black Betty!
Bramble jam??
Understood, but these were selected based on what seems to work for your average customer service person/office worker. The amount of times I’ve said ‘Sierra’ and got back C is too many.
Might re-think Frank over Foxtrot, though. That’s more habit than anything else.
Agreed in other contexts these are not the best choices, and there’s a reason they are not that in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
The NATO phonetic alphabet does make some intersting choices. Sierra being particularly bad because over a poor quality radio it can sound a lot like “zero.” the WWII American phonetic alphabet used “sugar.” Able Baker indeed.
T as in tardigrade
My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say “z as in xylophone?”
L for… um Lesbian? Was one of my favourites
C for [ˌt͡ʃɛ.kʰɪ.sl̥oʊ̯.ˈvɑ.kʰi.ə] (Yes I did narrow transcription for the purpose of making it look worse 💀)
nice link lol (at least on sync)
