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[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (6 children)

Because it almost never becomes more of a time-save to learn the phonetic alphabet than the 3 seconds it costs every 3 years when someone is saying "did you say a or h?" to me.

This only matters for people that regularly (at least once every few days) need to spell something out loud to someone, or if an error would lead to serious consequences. Almost no one is in those positions.

[–] Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I speak to customer service representatives on the phone and when they ask for codes, I recite NATO to them. And they get confused.

"Please sir can you enter your product code?"

"Yeah it's one zulu foxtrox three niner..."

"Wat."

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Weird. I learned from doing customer service and tech support. Never had anyone confused when I use it as a caller.

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