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cannedtuna@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Learn the Phonetic Alphabet

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Learn the Phonetic Alphabet

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cannedtuna@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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    Whoever did this deserves to burn in hell.

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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    I curse you!

    I curse you with balls-fall-off disease, and lupis.

    And not the one with the wolves…

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      Dr. House will cure them immediately with a diagnosis of lupus. Huntington’s might be better.

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      Lupus

  • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know why, but I burst out laughing at “Queue”

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    Funnily enough, I learned something about the peace sign from this.

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    G for “Gnat” is bad. It should be something that could be a “G” sound or something else.

    Like “G” for “Geoffrey”.

    • whatstatersprecious@lemmy.world
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      And N should be Not (Knot) or Nome (Gnome)

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      Several are like that. S-Sea, D-Double U, T-Tsunami

  • starik@lemmy.today
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    Oh, I see the problem. With the semaphore positions, Y looks like it should go between U and V

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    Should have made N ‘night’ just to really fuck with K.

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      And I as in Isle

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    “G as in Gif” would have been much more evil.

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      I like it. G as in gif, J as in Jif

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      Petersonian?!

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        Almost crying trying to explain why it’s more convenient to pronounce GIF with a hard G, while people pronounce it with J, and how it makes it easy to confuse with the JIF format

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          makes it easy to confuse with the JIF format

          Or worse, the peanut butter.

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            • edgesmash@lemmy.world
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              I’m aware of .jif, I was just making a dumb joke.

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    The real troll is leaving Bravo

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      And Lima

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        Should’ve been Ligma

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          What’s ligma?

          • Vitaly@feddit.uk
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            Ligma balls

            • lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world
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              Gottem lmao

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                Peak teamwork with @[email protected]

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        L is for Llefrith

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      @Trex202 @cannedtuna I thought it should be Bdellium?

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    Ha! I made one of these quite a few years ago too.

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      I like how “Z” had just Z like you said fuck it and have up.

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        Haha yep. A few I hadn’t thought of something that would be confusing. If someone has ideas, I’d appreciate them. But until then, it’s just gonna be Z

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    This is giving me an aneurysm…

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    M as in “Mancy”

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      Honestly this doesn’t bother me half as bad as the ‘M as in’ part does. It should be

      Mancy
      Alpha
      Romeo
      Bravo
      Lima
      Echo

      Not:

      M as in Mancy
      A as in Alpha
      R as in Romeo
      B as in Bravo
      L as in Lima
      E as in Echo

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        It’s a reference to Archer. Archer and Lana conversing: "And M, as in Mancy"; "M, as in what?"; "Mancy. What'd you think I said?"

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        True but also, people are stupid/ easily confused and have a lot of trouble figuring out what you mean unless you use the “As In” description.

        Source : I both take and make a lot of support calls. I’d say about 1 in 5 or so people can handle the NATO alphabet at a normal speaking speed.

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          That doesn’t mean they’re stupid. If you say “V” over a phone or radio, it can be hard to tell if you said V or B. Likewise with M and N, and plenty of others.

          The pneumonic phonetic alphabet (the real one, not this shitpost) disambiguates the sounds so there’s no confusion. People who don’t know pneumonic phonetic alphabet sometimes pick a random word or name to use for the same reason, i.e. “V as in vagabond”

          If you’re spelling something pneumonically phonetically to someone who doesn’t know the pneumonic phonetic alphabet, it can be hard for them to catch the sounds they’re not used to. Especially if you don’t tell them what you’re doing before you start spelling, it can sound like you’re just throwing random words at them.

          To illustrate the point, pick a language you don’t know, and ask someone who speaks that language to spell out a word in their alphabet. Or maybe find some videos online of spelling quizzes in other languages. Most of the letters probably begin with the same sounds they make. So if your theory is true, then if you aren’t stupid it should be easy to catch what they’re spelling. Not the case though.

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            I think they just meant that most people don’t pick up what you’re doing when you start rattling off nato phonetic words unless you prime them with “<letter> as in<word>”

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              Yeah that’s what I’m saying. And my only point is that that doesn’t make them stupid.

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        That’s the point. It’s saying you no longer have to do that. Because now you can just say

        Mnemonic
        Aisle
        Row
        Bravo
        Lima
        Eye

        (Which is confusing as fuck, because this is a shitpost and not remotely accurate, for anyone who didn’t pick up on that)

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        Yeah I just rattle off actual phonetic alphabet elements when on the phone with anyone I have to give long alphanumeric strings to. Occasionally it throws people off until they understand what I’m doing, but usually it is clearly understood on the first try.

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      We still quote this when doing crosswords etc.

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    I gave my nephew a book “p is for pterodactyl, the worst alphabet book ever” I think the adults liked it more than he did

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      Here is a similar song https://youtu.be/nQLv7zrJk9U

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        The banter at the end is fucking hilarious

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          Their whole “kids” album is great

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    Queue is my favorite. lol

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      Cue is my favourite too!

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      I as in LAN is my favourite

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        Ian the name. Shitty fonts without serif

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    “I” should be “Isle”.

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      Isn’t the point that Ian sounds like it should start with an E, where Isle sounds like it should start with an I?

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      Yeah that was a low-hanging fruit they left on the branch

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