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M as in Mancy. You would know!
The “calls with your mom or diffusing a bomb”…that whole section seems weird.
Wait is this whole thing somehow an Archer reference
S1, E7: Skytanic
It’s the first episode with Ray I think. Check it out on Netflix or wherever you dig up your internet video booty arr
Haha, didn’t catch that it was “diffusing” you know I guess a pretty efficient way to do that would be to detonate it.
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.
P as in pterodactyl
O as in oiseau
You can also just mess with them like:
- M as in Mnemonic
- N as in Ne
- O as in Opossum
- P as in Pneumonia
M like in Mancy
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.
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”.
I dunno that’s kind of like saying computer binary is trinary because there is a distinct separation of the bits
But there’s not a distinct separation of the bits
There is more than one width of space as well. And indeed, there are sometimes tones longer than a dash used as control codes.
But it’s a binary signal. It’s either on or off. All the symbols are described using a binary signal. There is a regular clock that divides the signal and each interval of the signal is read as on or off. A dah is three dits wide, most spaces are one or three dits wide, etc.
Morse code is transmitted as a binary code, but that doesn’t make Morse code binary. If that were the case the Latin alphabet would also count as binary because computers transmit it in binary. The rules you describe is the encoding between Morse code’s native trinary alphanumeric encoding into a binary format for transmission.
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.
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”
Some options not yet in these threads:
- A as in Aether.
- E as in Ewe
- D as in Django.
- H as in Herb (depends on locale).
- J as in Jalapeno.
- P as in Phonetic.
- T as in Tsunami.
- 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.
P as in Psoriasis…
It’s ALFA https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_136216.htm
Don’t ask me how I know. It’s annoying.
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.
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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’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.
M as in Mancy
what if i want to use M as in Mancy.
That’s how you get ants.
P as in Ants feels like a good one for that frenetic alphabet you’re right
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.
X as in Xanax Y as in Yggdrasil Z as in Zed
Z is pronounced as “zed” in the UK.
Same here in Canada. And that is why it is funny.
Haha I just got that, I think I’ll be using that too thanks.
B as in Bee is also funny as when they go “what?” you can say “you know, Bzzz Bzzz”
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
WaffleI try to stay away from life events requiring x-z
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).
Pretty cool about the peace symbol
I know all of this right up until the person on the phone asks me to spell it and then suddenly my mind goes blank. Every time.
