My only quibbles would be that 'G' is Golf and to be pedantic, in the phonetic alphabet 'A' is spelled Alfa.
And Arthur, I've never seen Waco used - to the best of my knowledge, from at least WWII on W's been Whiskey.
-Pat
And Arthur, I've never seen Waco used - to the best of my knowledge, from at least WWII on W's been Whiskey.
-Pat
Could someone kindly explain the above conversation to a non-native English speaker like me, please?
Edit to add: just noticed that if one reads the initial letters of those words one gets the sentence "WE DONT GIVE A F#CK".
Is that it?
Edit to add: just noticed that if one reads the initial letters of those words one gets the sentence "WE DONT GIVE A F#CK".
Is that it?
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The sandwich board sign posted that was directed at the 'easily offended' spelled out its message (mostly) in the ICAO/NATO phonetic alphabet, used in radio communications to convey spelling by using a standardized list of words, one for each letter. It is intended to prevent communication errors between similar sounding letter pronunciations such as 'M' and 'N' or 'B' 'D' and 'P', for instance. Such similar sounding letters could be confused if there is interference or background noise during communication.
What followed was a couple of us then quibbling about some of the words used therein being nonstandard.
-Pat
<edit to add - Logon, I was typing this out while you made your edit.>
What followed was a couple of us then quibbling about some of the words used therein being nonstandard.
-Pat
<edit to add - Logon, I was typing this out while you made your edit.>
I thought something else: that "removing everything that is not needed" is a minimalist euphemism for not saying that you have to use all the skill of a master to make a guitar starting from a piece of trunk.
In my opinion @chrisb wanted to ironically and very effectively underline in my opinion Michelangelo's art of removing everything that is not needed from a simple piece of marble to get a wonderful work of art.
But it's just my interpretation (that I really liked it and in fact I gave it a Like).
It was intended to imply that since it was “spelled” incorrectly, some people might not get the message.
You’re breaking up, tssssssshhhhhht, tsssssshtttt, I didn’t copy, tssssssshhhhhht (static continues).
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Basically. It's the phonetic alphabet. It's used for radio communications in military, avionics, HAM radio, etc. settings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Tom
It is true:
The word nothing begins with "n" and ends with "g."
The word nothing begins with "n" and ends with "g."