My Battlefield 3 crew would designate objectives on voice coms as, "Ango, Bango, Chango, and Django".
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Sounds a little.. unchained
Bingo Bango Bongo
Than is amazing, thank you hahaha.
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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
I can understand your confusion, but the first one he pronounced "po-tah-to".
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Bruh... It's P for "pterodactyl".
Brotato
C for [ˌt͡ʃɛ.kʰɪ.sl̥oʊ̯.ˈvɑ.kʰi.ə] (Yes I did narrow transcription for the purpose of making it look worse 💀)
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P for Pterodactyl
S for Sea
W for Why
E for Eye
G for Gnu
J for Jalapeño
You're missing a few good ones.
A for An
C for Cay
I for In
K for Knight
N as in No (a few of these work with "as in" but not with "for")
O as in Other
P as in Pose
Q for Qing (since Jalapeño is allowed)
T for The
X as in Xi Jinping
T as in tsunami.
P as in phone.
K as in knife or knee.
G as in gnostic.
X as in xylophone.
D as in djembe.
M as mnemonic.
O as in opossum in certain locales.
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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.
T as in tardigrade
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.
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My last name has a z in it and I had a customer service person say "z as in xylophone?"
alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot etc. it's SO HELPFUL when talking on the phone. I learned them all because no one could figure out my name.
TBF you could just tell them.
lol. k.
Drag tries to talk NATO to the call center people and they don't understand
I wish NATO phonetic was more commonly understood.
The brilliance is that it works in other languages too. Don't know about French/Italian but for a Norwegian it's usable. Only Charlie, Mike, and Yankee i think would not be understood if said as spelled in Norwegian.
A for 'Orses
B for mutton
C for yourself
etc
That's gotta be a two Ronnie's joke
Oh my god, I haven't heard that since my dad died. He was born in London in 1931 ("a true Cockney") and used to say that all the time.
Thanks, that's a nice memory.
"T for Terrorist"
The CS Representative I was talking to: "Sir, this is an Airline"
"Oh my bad, my bad ..
B for bomb. T for twin towers. N for nine eleven was a inside job."
Be sure to use L for Luigi when verifying info over the phone with your health insurance.
I was frustrated with the phone support agent and used ‘S, as in Stupid’ and I got hung up on.
C for Czechoslovakia may be a slight improvement over my go-tos:
A for Antidisestablishmentarianism
B for Buckminsterfullerene
C for Counterrevolutionaries
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Okay, that's K, as in KY Jelly. O, as in OnlyFans. L as in Lo Wang. A as in Asshole. N as in...
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Always been a petty pet peeve of mine. When I was training customer service reps I'd hand out a sheet and suggest they nail it up in their cube.
So much easier when everyone's on the same page. The military uses the phonetic alphabet because it's crystal clear, even over sketchy coms.
Why would you make up some bullshit of your own, having to constantly stop and think about it, when the pros already have a working system?! FFS, you don't even have to make the effort to memorize it, just use it a few times, done, it's in your head forever. Now I'm getting mad. (Told you I was petty about this.)
Anyone know why they use "niner"? Doesn't seem to mix up with other numbers.
EDIT: That's 2 band names I came out with today.
Petty Pet Peeve™
Anal Rail Gun™
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