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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
Waffle
I try to stay away from life events requiring x-z
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.
Or Sierra Trading Post, the best place to get your outdoor gear.
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).
It's ALFA https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_136216.htm
Don't ask me how I know. It's annoying.
M like in Mancy
I've always enjoyed playing with folks who actually know this by giving them intentionally misleading cues. Instead of "E as in Echo", say "G as in Gecko". That sort of thing. Cuneiform, Frisky, Mango, Oubliette, Zima...
Now I want all 26 done this way... D as in django would probably be the best though.
FYI, the semaphore signs are shown from the listener's PoV, so if you are signing to someone, you have to mirror the directions you see in this image. So for example to send a J, you raise your right flag and point the left out level.
personally, I've always preferred this version:
I always thought we should add the Hot Shots! callsigns
"Copy that, Purple Fluffer Nutter."
"Roger that, Milli Vanilli Chilly Willy."
fingler
I know these... And for 20 years I refuse to use any, its way funnier to hear the cringe on the other side.
Bonus points to use things that sound like other things for example: "K as in Knife"
P as in Psoriasis....
Some options not yet in these threads:
- J as in Jalapeno.
...or J as in graphics interchange format 😈
Yesssssss And depending what part of the world you are talking to you can also pronounce the "J" hard in Jalapeno to really get people going. I used to have to do this all the time over the phone in my old job and still have a chuckle about it.
These guides always misspell Alfa
Alpha is confusing for not native English speakers, so it's supposed to be spelt with an F.
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.
I practice this by reading off license plates while I’m driving.
It’s not a useful skill at all because the only time I use it is calling somewhere, and nobody else knows them.
You have to say it anyway, make them the weird one for not putting two and two together. This shit was created for a reason.
I have found it really useful for confusing AI phone support agents too. Reading a postcode as "Alpha bravo 1 2 3 charlie delta" and it had no idea what to do so put me through to a person.
I know about this. I still choose my own rules. Once I said "X for xylophone". It makes things fun.
One time my roommate (who worked at Amazon) did that and people were giggling over the words he chose, most of them were Pokemon iirc.
I appreciate the Archer reference
For something so commonly used, it's got some pretty glaring flaws. Most critically, 'golf' and 'mike' - single syllable, which over radio comms often doesn't sound like shit. Compare to something like 'oscar', which even if either half of it gets all staticky you still hear "osc--" or "--car" which is enough to still receive an accurate exchange of info.
My more whiny complaints are that the number of syllables are inconsistent, F and X use compound words instead of one single complete word which feels... icky... x gets a pass cuz x is always janky and x-ray is perfect. Some of the entries rhyme with commonly used words that could confuse someone who's either inexperienced or in a stressful situation like being shot at. For example, "echo" could be misheard as "gecko" and even though "gecko" isn't on the list, our brains do stupid shit when they're saturated with adrenaline, so something like this should be as absolutely idiot-proof as possible.
If I could magic that fucker into something new, I'd shoot for:
every entry is exactly three syllables.
no two of the same syllables in any entry can rhyme with those two syllables of another entry. I.E., "Uniform" and "Chloroform" are not compatible because syllables 2 and 3 are too similar.
Each entry should be as common a word as possible, in as low/unspecialized a reading level as possible. I.E., "November" is recognizable by nearly everyone; vs something like "Ganglia" which is gibberish to anyone without specialty knowledge requiring them to be familiar with ganglia.
No compound or multiple word entries.
X gets a pass cuz x is always janky and x-ray is perfect.
Prototype phonetic alphabet must be first scrutinized by a panel consisting of a linguist, a speech pathologist, an English teacher, a 7 year old, a highschooler, a geriatric with severe hearing loss, and a junior enlisted US Marine. Their job is to find any potential for confusion.
Always been a bit annoyed that people describe Morse as a binary code, it isn't, it's technically trinary, you have 3 symbols, dot, dash, and space. Without a space you can't discern the difference between "hi" and "eeeeee".
