A few months ago I expended the effort and learned that goddamn alphabet. Guess what? Haven’t needed it since. All gone.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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Count your blessings, sucks having to get on the phone and play the spelling game
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Drag tries to talk NATO to the call center people and they don't understand
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.
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M as in Mancy!
Q for queue
The number of people that ask if i meant C when I say Sierra is too damn high.
If ham radio taught me anything is the phonetic alphabet. Some people have been in the military. For me, I’m a ham.
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My favorite was when a guy was giving me his email and said "B, as in Alabama"
I used to have to be on the phones A LOT, and when I was requested to do this I would use the "Pasta Phoenetic" alphabet. You wouldn't believe how many different types of pasta there is!
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Eggplant, xerxes, crybaby, overbite, narwhal.