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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:52:22 -0400, Mike Coslo wrote:
I prefer that people simply say their callsign to me. Phonetics annoy me mostly. When they use their phonetics, are they practicing courtesy to me? We have an individual (respected old-timer at that) who, when he takes his turn-in-the-barrel as net control of our daily ARES/RACES check-in, gets confused over people's call signs regardless of whether phonetics are used or not, and even if one identifies with phonetics, he will acknowledge with some ad-hoc inconsistent mixture of ITU, old military, and old telco (cities) phonetics. For one, it drives me nuts even though he's a nice guy. And on another score, the last letter in my call is "P", and how can "pa-PA" - or even the popular pronunciation "poppuh" be confused with "Japan" ?? -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon |
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Phil Kane wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:52:22 -0400, Mike Coslo wrote: I prefer that people simply say their callsign to me. Phonetics annoy me mostly. When they use their phonetics, are they practicing courtesy to me? We have an individual (respected old-timer at that) who, when he takes his turn-in-the-barrel as net control of our daily ARES/RACES check-in, gets confused over people's call signs regardless of whether phonetics are used or not, and even if one identifies with phonetics, he will acknowledge with some ad-hoc inconsistent mixture of ITU, old military, and old telco (cities) phonetics. For one, it drives me nuts even though he's a nice guy. And on another score, the last letter in my call is "P", and how can "pa-PA" - or even the popular pronunciation "poppuh" be confused with "Japan" ?? pa-PA could under some circumstances sound a teeny bit like Japan if some one pronounced it Jaw-pawn. Who would do that, I'm not sure. - Mike KB3EIA - |
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"Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... Phil Kane wrote: On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:52:22 -0400, Mike Coslo wrote: I prefer that people simply say their callsign to me. Phonetics annoy me mostly. When they use their phonetics, are they practicing courtesy to me? We have an individual (respected old-timer at that) who, when he takes his turn-in-the-barrel as net control of our daily ARES/RACES check-in, gets confused over people's call signs regardless of whether phonetics are used or not, and even if one identifies with phonetics, he will acknowledge with some ad-hoc inconsistent mixture of ITU, old military, and old telco (cities) phonetics. For one, it drives me nuts even though he's a nice guy. And on another score, the last letter in my call is "P", and how can "pa-PA" - or even the popular pronunciation "poppuh" be confused with "Japan" ?? pa-PA could under some circumstances sound a teeny bit like Japan if some one pronounced it Jaw-pawn. Who would do that, I'm not sure. - Mike KB3EIA - In many languages, the English unaccented sound of a as in the first syllable of Japan and the hard, short sound of a as in the second syllable of Japan simply don't exist. Those learning English have to make a special effort to learn to pronounce them. I've heard several foreign stations pronounce it more like "jaw-pawn" than the standard English pronunciation. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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Phil Kane wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:52:22 -0400, Mike Coslo wrote: I prefer that people simply say their callsign to me. Phonetics annoy me mostly. When they use their phonetics, are they practicing courtesy to me? We have an individual (respected old-timer at that) who, when he takes his turn-in-the-barrel as net control of our daily ARES/RACES check-in, gets confused over people's call signs regardless of whether phonetics are used or not, and even if one identifies with phonetics, he will acknowledge with some ad-hoc inconsistent mixture of ITU, old military, and old telco (cities) phonetics. For one, it drives me nuts even though he's a nice guy. That's probably not trouble with phonetics, but memory trouble. A lot of times during a contest (I don't compete, but just answer people who are competing) I do a QSO and after listen to a subsequent QSO or his CQ to get the call right in the log book. That way I avoid wasting their time. |
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