At least they got Juliett correct. It's two T's to keep French speakers from mispronouncing it.

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.

Fingler, Umm?, Chunky, Kristen Stewart is not a great actress.

I always thought we should add the Hot Shots! callsigns

"Copy that, Purple Fluffer Nutter."

"Roger that, Milli Vanilli Chilly Willy."

fingler

I was using this to read put a gift card code to make a purchase over the phone with apple (don't ask why, it was a shit show), and when I gave Sierra, the person thought it was C as in Ciara. Had to repeat the whole thing over again.

Now I want all 26 done this way... D as in django would probably be the best though.

I can imagine the laughs at all the words you might have come up with. "It's at uhh..... Narwhal Sellotape Banana!"

A reminder though, to anyone who needs it - don't be condescending to others for not knowing things. Everything we know, we had to learn.

For me, I learnt the phonetic alphabet after getting frustrated one too many times trying to give my postal code and car reg on a bad phone line.

Tiajuana-Gringo-Water-Fiver-Zero

F as in Filip, then need G as in Geoffrey

Thanks I hate it

We need the real, dirty version. Not the one you use for mom.

yuck. I will bully you off my line.

The "calls with your mom or diffusing a bomb"...that whole section seems weird.

Doubly clever! For those that don't know, that's the code cops use. :)

Maybe it should be!

It can be! As long as they hear the U and know what you mean, who cares.

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.

Or Sierra Trading Post, the best place to get your outdoor gear.

AALK????

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That "F" has an extra dot, too, no?

what if i want to use M as in Mancy.

I always liked this chart for Morse code:

I’m curious how systematically they went with it

Allow me to introduce you to Alfred Vail.

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've found that anyone on the other end of a service call understands it clearly. About half use it correctly, which is how I learned back in the day.

I dunno that’s kind of like saying computer binary is trinary because there is a distinct separation of the bits

It is about like the difference between SPI and I2C serial communications.

I struggled with that one for a little while. My intuition of serial is more like SPI where there is a dedicated clock structure from a clock source that is separate from the data transmission. Or like with UART serial where the clock baud rate must be known or set in advance to establish communications.

However, with I2C serial it is only a 2 wire data interface, and the clock is built into the data. That is the main serial communications method used for most analog-world type sensors, like temperature, pressure, real time clocks chips, and many slow types of EEPROM persistent memory. SPI is used for small simple displays in embedded devices, and stuff like the flash memory chip that stores your bootloader on your computer. UART is most often the remote serial terminal access on stuff like your computer and router, though all of these com peripherals have exceptions in use cases.

The way I2C works is that the data line is always held in a high state with a weak pull up resistor. The devices attached to this data line use NPN transistors to pull the line low. Then the protocol establishes who gets to talk and when and how.

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.

X as in Xanax Y as in Yggdrasil Z as in Zed