On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 09:35:39 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >Ok, I give up. I have favorite-newscaster stories, too, but I don't get this >one. What's an EFT cargo hatch? Is this so obvious a failure that I'll be >required by law to kick myself when it's explained to me, or something that >only pilots know, or what? > I struggled for vernacular phonetic vowel names and apparently failed.
If the newscaster had been an aviator he couldd have said Alfa Foxtrot Tango. But an aviator or a mariner wouldn't have needed to. I believe he said in defense that it appeared in caps in his script. But if that came off a teletype everything would have been caps. I once recited a serial number to Tech Support using NATO phonetic alphabet. She understood immediately; no request for clarification. Perhaps she was a veteran. Why can't local emergency services concur on a phonetic alphabet? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
