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December 29, 2003
Alpha Brazo Yankee Zulu
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Quite often, I have to speak or understand information given over the phone that contains numbers and digits, such as IP addresses or convoluted Web site URLs. Because of the limited bias of phone lines, the higher frequencies of the human voice are cut out and letters such as 'P' and 'T' or 'F' and 'S' or 'D' and 'B' or 'N' and 'M' sound alike. So this comes in handy.
In British English my name is spelled Mike Alpha Tango Tango, but in Esperanto it's spelled Maŝino Asfalto Triumfo Triumfo
(Note the unicode for the 'ŝ' [ŝ] since 's' doesn't have a circumflex over it in the standard 7- or 8-bit encoded character set.)
--------Posted by mslaybau at December 29, 2003 11:07 AM