• Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    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.

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      18 days ago

      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

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      17 days ago

      I once said Sierra and the guy wrote the letter C, because apparently he might be a physicist, but he was also an idiot

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        17 days ago

        TBH “Sierra” is a pretty obscure word. I didn’t know about it until the Mac OS release with that name. And given how often “c” makes an “s” sound, that sounds like a reasonable mistake to make if you’ve never heard the word before.