√𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.world to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months agofeels foolish that I never remember itimagemessage-square134linkfedilinkarrow-up1528arrow-down17
arrow-up1521arrow-down1imagefeels foolish that I never remember it√𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.world to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square134linkfedilink
minus-squaresad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·7 months agoone of my last jobs needed me to use this for reading inventory locations to a crane operator over a phone. he always seemed slightly bemused that I didn’t know the phonetic alphabet and had to make up my own phonetics for him
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agoI 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.
minus-squaresad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoexactly. I KNOW that dude was clowning me as soon as I hung up the phone 😂
one of my last jobs needed me to use this for reading inventory locations to a crane operator over a phone. he always seemed slightly bemused that I didn’t know the phonetic alphabet and had to make up my own phonetics for him
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.
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exactly. I KNOW that dude was clowning me as soon as I hung up the phone 😂