1171
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago

I can remember one time:

"P for Potato",

"B for... err... i dunno, Botato?".

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Potato

Botato

Brother the explicit purpose of the phonetic alphabet is to make all of the letters audibly distinguishable by ensuring none of them rhyme

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago
[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 points 10 months ago

I can understand your confusion, but the first one he pronounced "po-tah-to".

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Good point Cotato and Kotato would certainly be a problem.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 9 months ago

Yet I've had someone tell me “P for Pear” which did not answer my question “B or P?”

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I wish more people knew the Geneva standard phonetic alphabet or whatever the fuck it's called

[-] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Bruh... It's P for "pterodactyl".

[-] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
1171 points (100.0% liked)

Microblog Memes

9670 readers
780 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS