Okay...

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

I'm a little stupid about the phonetic alphabet...but.

Is it C as in cat, or C as in Sam?

I'm just curious if I've stumbled into an alternate universe, where the alphabet is warped.... because I just spent five minutes on the phone merely attempting to wrangle the PC name out of a user who was not very good with my phonetic spelling... even using comparison phrasing such as the above.

Also, in her world, "B as in boy" is the same as "V as in boy."

Some might argue a bad phone connection. However, her voice was crystal clear, and I know people would complain if they can't hear me. Hell, they can hear my officemates across the room (especially when they swear, but that's a whole other rant).

...my brain hurts.

Comments

[zucci-zookeenee.livejournal.com]

I once said "B as in brocolli" and they repeated "K as in krocolli?"

...I don't even think B and K sound anything alike.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

I don't think so either... logic fail maybe?

/passes over the marguerita mix

[toxico.livejournal.com]

I once was asked if the numbers needed to be capitalized.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

Ooo ooo ooo! Can they be capitalized? :D

Or is it like this:
S as in sea.
E as in eye.
X as in xylophone.

....that...was unintentional (reads down)....but I'm leaving that up. <3

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

Overheard when I worked in an ISP tech support cube farm:

Audible *bip!* of the mute button turning on

Rep: Okay, ma'am, do you understand letters?
Letters. Yes? Okay.
Do you understand numbers? We're good on that? Great.
So next time you ask me if that's capital numbers, I'm gonna punch you in the f*cking face."

*bip!

[mooja.livejournal.com]

i prefer T as in Tsunami

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

::snickers:: Now that's just mean. :)

[zucci-zookeenee.livejournal.com]

V as in veloceraptor!

[snyperwolf.livejournal.com]

P as in Pterodactyl?

[reanimated.livejournal.com]

you don't know much spanish, do you? ;-) B and V sound the same, and c does in fact have a K or an S sound. cocina = koseena. we stole some of that for english, you know? think about "grocery."

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

I know a bit. ;)

And I do the phonetic thing automatically, in case there's a bad phone connection...

[azurelunatic]

I did not ever mis-type b/v for each other until I started quality assurance monitoring on Spanish-speaking interviewers. Now I do it all the time.

[reanimated.livejournal.com]

and wow, apparently NO ONE here knows spanish...or even english! we have Cs that sound like S, too. man.

[/language geek]

why yes, these are some snarky comments. don't take it personal. ;-) but that seemed the obvious answer to me thanks to the B/V thing.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

/soothe, hands over the Tension Tamer Tea.

[hotclaws.livejournal.com]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

This. :)

[ursulagoddess.livejournal.com]

Have you tried using the military alphabet?

A – ALPHA
B – BRAVO
C – CHARLIE
D – DAVID
E – ECHO
F – FOXTROT
G – GOLF
H – HOTEL
I – INDIA
J – JULIET
K – KILO
L – LIMA
M – MIKE
N – NOVEMBER
O – OSCAR
P – PAPA
Q – QUEBEC
R – ROMEO
S – SIERRA
T – TANGO
U – UNIFORM
V – VICTOR
W – WHISKEY
X – XRAY
Y – YANKEE
Z – ZULU

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

I owe you one. <3 I've run a Google search before, and then promptly forgotten it. Don't encourage my dumbness! :D

Don't...

[sarek-ca.livejournal.com]

...forget "N" as in "knife".

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

C as in FUCKTARD.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

i once had someone respond to me saying "c as in cat" with "was that t as in tom?"

[cazmanian-minx.livejournal.com]

Best one I ever had was someone spelling out his postcode and coming up with Y for wanker.

He couldn't figure out why he'd said it either!

[demented-pants.livejournal.com]

We have a quotes function on our team webpage for especially hilarious things that came up. I think my favorite quote is one from a (now) supervisor:

"Did I just hear you tell that user, 'N as in, "Nazi"?'"

:D

Depends on how pissed off the person using phonetics is.

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

I've heard someone use "A as in asshole, B as in bastard .."

Some of them were really entertaining.

Customers get all the fun. :(

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

"No, that's C, as in '0x43'!"

(I had a strange and isolated childhood.)

[emsporter.livejournal.com]

I use the military phonetic alphabet (and have it taped to my monitor in case I suffer from brainfarts mid-call).

This still didn't make up for the day that I had to ask someone to get a competent colleague to help them (no, I am NOT spelling ITCONFIG it's IPCONFIG and how many times do I have to say P for papa, princess, peter, paul, poke, pig, piss off?)

Or the day that C for CHARLIE M for MIKE D for DELTA ended up CHMD. *headdesk*