yeah I couldnt watch that, it kept stopping to show ads inserted into the video and after one stopped, a permanent overlay ad hovered in the bottom left hand side of the video and would not go away.
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Alfa?
Really?
Yes, he explained why it's spelled that way in the video. The creators were worried that people unfamiliar with English wouldn't pronounce the "ph" properly.
He also explained why Juliett is spelled with two Ts instead of one.
The origin of "ph" for the "f" sound is that in Classical greek these words were pronounced with an aspirated "ph", which lead to this romanization. Only later they were actually pronounced "f".
So you could say that "ph" to universally communicate "f" is faulty, because it used to be a different sound in the first place.
I just learned a day or two ago that that's the correct way? Because non-native speakers have problems with ph?
I only know Alpha.
Alpha (animal)
Alphabet
Alpha goal (from almost every game about CTF)
For me in my language it is Alfa (the Greek letter) Alfabet (the alphabet) and Alfa-mannetje (you :P)
Right, but you speak english. As the video explains, it was spelled “alfa” so people who can’t speak english don’t pronounce it with a p sound.
The CUTIE Phonetic Alphabet – because “the NATO Phonetic Alphabet & the LAPD Phonetic Alphabet are military & cop coded”
I hate and love this equally. I would say as a point of critique is that Jam should be setting else as 3 letter am words are too numerous to be distinct enough over shit verbal communication mediums.
The only very minor flaw is that 95% of people probably don't know most of these words.
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