▲ 59 ▼ Today, we met a girl who was complaining about her Asperger parents giving her and her three siblings terrible names. (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by UncleArthur@lemmy.world to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world 4 comments fedilink hide all child comments "I don't think Charlie is such a bad choice of name, even for a girl," I told her. "You should talk to my sisters, Alfa, Bravo and Delta," she replied.
[–] yesman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children) This would have been funnier in the 40s. The kids would have been able, baker, charlie, and dog. permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] seadoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children) You sent me down a mini rabbit hole! It’s so weird to me that people decided yes “November” and “uniform” are great words for rapid communications. Uncle was already in there so nephew or niece would be fine, or even like net idk. Also have never seen alpha spelled “Alfa” in my life but it’s actually in there, bonkers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_military_phonetic_spelling_alphabets permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] retrolasered@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago Isn't it designed to be words that are difficult to mistake for other words. I thought it was more about using unreliable frequencies with potential white noise than being rapid permalink fedilink source parent [–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 1 year ago Alfa is so spelt so that non-English speakers would pronounce it correctly. The letters 'ph' could be problematic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] seadoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children) You sent me down a mini rabbit hole! It’s so weird to me that people decided yes “November” and “uniform” are great words for rapid communications. Uncle was already in there so nephew or niece would be fine, or even like net idk. Also have never seen alpha spelled “Alfa” in my life but it’s actually in there, bonkers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_military_phonetic_spelling_alphabets permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] retrolasered@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago Isn't it designed to be words that are difficult to mistake for other words. I thought it was more about using unreliable frequencies with potential white noise than being rapid permalink fedilink source parent [–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 1 year ago Alfa is so spelt so that non-English speakers would pronounce it correctly. The letters 'ph' could be problematic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] retrolasered@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago Isn't it designed to be words that are difficult to mistake for other words. I thought it was more about using unreliable frequencies with potential white noise than being rapid permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 1 year ago Alfa is so spelt so that non-English speakers would pronounce it correctly. The letters 'ph' could be problematic. permalink fedilink source parent
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