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.

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[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*