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For years I thought U was unicorn.
Maybe it should be!
It can be! As long as they hear the U and know what you mean, who cares.
M as in Mancy. You would know!
The “calls with your mom or diffusing a bomb”…that whole section seems weird.
Wait is this whole thing somehow an Archer reference
S1, E7: Skytanic
It’s the first episode with Ray I think. Check it out on Netflix or wherever you dig up your internet video booty arr
Haha, didn’t catch that it was “diffusing” you know I guess a pretty efficient way to do that would be to detonate it.
They really missed an opportunity to get the semaphore to look like the letters they represent. At least get the I, K, and T to line up (V gets a pass because at least that pattern goes to the U).
I use the NATO everyday at work and I’ll be handing this one out to new folks lol.
I know all of this right up until the person on the phone asks me to spell it and then suddenly my mind goes blank. Every time.
I prefer the android phonetic alphabet
Alpha
Baklava
Cupcake
Donut
Eclair
Froyo
Gingerbread
Honeycomb
Ice cream
Jelly bean
Kit kat
Lollipop
Marshmallow
Nougat
Oreo
Pie
Quince
Red velvet cheesecake
Snow cone
Tiramisu
Upside down cake
Vanilla
WaffleI try to stay away from life events requiring x-z
That Morse code tidbit is actually super interesting. I’m curious how systematically they went with it, like E-I-S-H were the most common, and are ascending in dit counts. And then A being one dit and dash being the next most frequent. Or some combination of “values” for a dit/dash
I always liked this chart for Morse code:
I use a modified version with
I -> Indigo
W -> WaterNow I’m not sure if I use indigo and India. Pretty sure it’s indigo. India always fell off somehow.
I appreciate the Archer reference
personally, I’ve always preferred this version:
Fingler, Umm?, Chunky, Kristen Stewart is not a great actress.
A radio show I listened to years ago did a competition each day to update each letter of the phonetic alphabet. I don’t remember most of them, but they decided that T should be “Technotechnotechno” and that always amused me.
I always thought we should add the Hot Shots! callsigns
“Copy that, Purple Fluffer Nutter.”
“Roger that, Milli Vanilli Chilly Willy.”
fingler
There was a very large number of people who seem to want to write C for Sierra and it’s really concerning.
Not only does it mean they’ve never heard of Sierra Leone which shows a distinct lack of geopolitical knowledge, but they’ve also never heard of Sierra software which shows that they’re not worth talking to.
Also that they thought that the phonetic alphabet, created for making it less ambiguous to describe English letters verbally, would decide to use one of the exception cases to the pronunciation of the letter C where it takes on the identical sound to the letter S, to help avoid confusion.
I’m sure a lot of people don’t know about the phonetic alphabet and just think I’m coming up with equivalents on the fly.
I once had an engineer go “G as in, …er… Oh Geee?”, which I suppose worked, sort of.
I remember someone screaming for a code down a phone line once and my mate started with the whole “G for gnome” , “P for pterodactyl” etc.
I laughed.
M like in Mancy
It’s ALFA https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_136216.htm
Don’t ask me how I know. It’s annoying.
