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minus-squareJustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·4 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
minus-squareCeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI can understand your confusion, but the first one he pronounced “po-tah-to”.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoGood point Cotato and Kotato would certainly be a problem.
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoYet I’ve had someone tell me “P for Pear” which did not answer my question “B or P?”
minus-squareJustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI wish more people knew the Geneva standard phonetic alphabet or whatever the fuck it’s called
Brother the explicit purpose of the phonetic alphabet is to make all of the letters audibly distinguishable by ensuring none of them rhyme
Boh-tah-toe
I can understand your confusion, but the first one he pronounced “po-tah-to”.
Good point Cotato and Kotato would certainly be a problem.
Yet I’ve had someone tell me “P for Pear” which did not answer my question “B or P?”
I wish more people knew the Geneva standard phonetic alphabet or whatever the fuck it’s called