Funny moment today: I had to call my bank because my new credit card hasn't arrived yet (arbitrary renewal processes are so silly), even though it shipped July 10. Long story short, we're getting it couriered - but when the very nice young lady tried to give me the confirmation number for tracking she... made up her own phonetic code?
*unclear sound* like ??? (chore/pour)
*unclear sound* like ??? (mall/wall)
She *meant* CM, but that's what Charlie and Mike are for. 🤦🏻 We have a system, love!
@MLClark I was asked by a sales operator “and how does your name appear on your credit card?” I responded “in raised capital letters.”
I can do this all day. 😉
They're just lucky you didn't go into greater detail about any visible scuffing on the ridges. 😅 You menace, you.
@CanisPundit @MLClark There's a lady from the water department I talk to every few months. She spells letters with the phonetic alphabet very carefully, but then says the numbers the same way.
"Be as in Bravo, One as in One..."
I don't mind. : )
Aw. An attempt was made!
@AskTheDevil @MLClark … and “u” line you, but there’s two in a row, so double u…
You don't want to mess with those two letters, @MLClark 😜
Whaddya gonna do about it, CHARLIE MIKE?
MIKE LIMA wants answers!!!
It's funny that it's not something that's taught automatically, out in the world. Because it's relevant all the time! I had to look up a phonetic alphabet and intentionally learn it (though it was pretty easy, what with reinforcing it all the time through use. Especially w/my current surname!)
Exactly! This person had a thick (different) accent, probably a Tamil dialect, while working for a Canadian bank call centre. I *have* to believe her job would be simpler if she memorized the standard NATO phonetic alphabet. Lovely lady, very diligent! But making more work for herself with her creative phonetics.
@MLClark I can never remember all the call letters any more, so I make them up too. I figure as long as I pick obvious words it should work. Like X as in Xylophone and M as in Mancy.
Now *that's* the Lucifer we know and love!
@MLClark @AskTheDevil I like to confuse people - at work I'll say "That's C as in dog" lmao
Just so long as they don't reply, "That's the door, as in get out!" 😅
@AskTheDevil @MLClark we have a running game there on the radios, we like to use each others names when answering security over the radio...
@MLClark On a 5.5 hour drive once, DD and I drove SIL bonkers by using non-standard phonetics. He speaks military and it was my first phonetics language, so I'm still OK with it. (My real fluency is LE.) But she refuses either ;) She told him to take exit 13 alligator and when she got a growl from him, she did that the rest of the trip. I joined in for a while, but he was getting genuinely angry so I stopped. The kids found it hilarious, of course!
@MLClark “that’s “p” like in phone or psychology.