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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Beautiful, though they didn't really describe dd well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this is an alphabet but the whole idea of the phonetic alphabet is to make communication more efficient, and I don't think this achieves that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Please use this and don't make up your own shit on the fly. It's very understandable both as a rep and a customer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In a phone conversation with a vendor they interrupted me while spelling to say something like "oh thank God you're using the normal one and not shit like 'frankfurter' "

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

O as in opossum, p as in pnumonia, c as in Chicago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

K as in knight

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it evolved to where it is now, no more changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

WE COULD HAVE HAD QUACK FOR Q??? we were robbed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I first started working at a callcenter, I quickly went "oh I need to learn a phonetic alphabet" and printed and posted the NATO alphabet at my desk

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We used to do it with everything but the NATO alphabet. Everyone had their own version, I would mostly use first names, some colleagues would do cities, animals, countries, etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reinvent the wheel - always a good use of time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never claimed it was. It was mostly just a bit of fun in an awfully boring and shitty workplace, and got the job done good enough tbh. We're talking about a call center here not coordinating nuclear launches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I worked in armored transportation for awhile and we did this too when checking bags of money in/out of the vault. I liked to choose a theme like "80s action movies" and see if the other person would pick up on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was in the Army for 6 years, yet whenever I try to think of the letter M my brain just short circuits to "Movember".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

M as in mancy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not sure about why people are surprised by this alphabet. It’s been in use for quite some time in its current form. I work in aviation and we always use this for radio communications. Obviously the military does too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🎵Foxtrot... Uniform... Charlie... Kilo....! 🎶

(Bloodhound Gang song)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Put the you know what, in the you know where.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I personally hate it when I say the nato alphabet equivallent and somebody just gets confused. Like "what do you mean alpha, is that what I need to type?". Or worse yet, they start using names and end up with the joke from Archer - "M as in Mancy" or other nondescript names for letters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My personal favorite I overheard was "N as in pneumonic"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I like throwing these in on purpose, p as in pterodactyl often gets a chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I can't remember this guide but I remember the Android Phonetic Alphabet

  • Alpha
  • Beta
  • Cupcake
  • Donut
  • Eclair
  • Froyo
  • Gingerbread
  • Honeycomb
  • Ice Cream
  • Jelly Bean
  • KitKat
  • Lollipop
  • Marshmallow
  • Nougat
  • Oreo
  • Pie
  • Quiche
  • Red Velvet
  • Sugar Cookie
  • Tiramisu
  • Upside Down Cake
  • Vanilla
  • Waffle

There are no other letters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure it's Ice Cream Sandwich for I.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"No, I said P! P for pterodactyl!"

Edit: Though, that said, the point of the phonetic alphabet is they are very distinguishable words that sound nothing like one another. Even making out just "-a-a" you know it was papa, P. So as long as you know how to spell pterodactyl...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Someone made a whole book out of this joke

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Omg, I need to waste my money on this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It is 100% more fun to make them up yourself though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A as in Aye

E as in Ewe

S as in Sea

W as in Why

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Lima balls…