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[fishofthewoods]

You have to rename yourself with one of the words from the NATO phonetic alphabet. Which are you picking?

[flameswallower]

THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET RANKED AS POTENTIAL CHOSEN NAMES FOR TRANS PEOPLE:

First, we're not ranking Zulu. Don't name yourself Zulu unless you have a very specific personal background, and even then it might be kind of weird, like naming yourself "Irish" or something. IDK, I'm not Zulu or of Zulu descent, I don't wanna speculate any more or get into it without feedback from that community.

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IN REVERSE ORDER FROM WORST TO BEST:

Kilo: Why do you want to be called this? Would you want to be called "Ounce?" Or "Meter?"

Yankee: Seriously???????

Uniform: Terrible name, ugly word.

Alfa, spelled "Alfa:" Reminds me too much of "alfalfa." Looks dorky.

India: I love how it sounds and looks, but it might be kinda Orientalist as a given name in a lot of contexts.

Foxtrot: Eh. Not really weird/funny enough OR cool/good-sounding enough.

Lima: imo there's nothing wrong with a Cool City Name, it doesn't strike me as Off in the same way as naming someone after a country (let alone an ethno-linguistic group). Unfortunately, while Lima isn't the worst candidate, I'm not a huge fan. It sounds a little bit wet or slimy to me. But wait, maybe that's cool, actually? Personally, I would be mildly surprised/confused by a man or masc person named Lima, it feels feminine to me.

Golf: It would be really, really funny to name yourself Golf, but I feel like the joke would eventually wear thin for all but the most committed to the bit.

Papa: Really, really funny AND kinky. Less uncomfortable and in-your-face than "daddy." Might also get old. This feels like either a butch dyke one or an older, bearlike trans man one.

Alpha, spelled "Alpha:" Way better than "Alfa," but could sound a bit manosphere and/or omegaverse fanfiction. On the other hand? Maybe you want people to think about omegaverse fanfiction when they hear or see your name.

Hotel: Personally, I think I'd pick this over Golf. But then, I like hotels and do not like golf, and I like the word hotel more than the word golf.

Quebec: A much more appealing city name, in my opinion. Like, it's ugly, but it's fun-quirky-ugly.

Romeo: Now we enter the real contenders! This is great except for how "Romeo" is also very much something people call each other sarcastically/disparagingly, and isn't really associated with anything besides the Shakespeare play.

Bravo: Fun masc name, reminds me of Johnny Bravo, but that may be a plus for you.

Tango: If you wanna be a dance, pick this over Foxtrot.

Mike: Solid, if a little boring. One of the better generic male names.

Delta: VERY cool-sounding name, esp. for a woman

Charlie: A wonderful name for any gender, especially if you want a name that's very normal without being boring

Juliet: Even better in the "name sounds completely normal but isn't boring" department. Evokes Shakespeare without ONLY being associated with Shakespeare.

Victor: See above, more or less, sub "Frankenstein" for "Shakespeare." Also it's just a common noun with an immediately obvious meaning, which I like.

Sierra: What can I say, I love nature names, I find this one phonetically and visually pleasing too.

Oscar: Easily my favorite of the "normal names!" It means deer-lover and is associated with many different things. Sounds amazing.

Whiskey: Imagine how fucking cool this name would be on the right person. Why, the only thing it would be cooler to name yourself would be something like...

X-Ray: There is not a better, slicker, more attention-grabbing trans person name in the NATO phonetic alphabet. Fuckin' X-Ray. Admit it, you're kind of annoyed that you aren't X-Ray.

[mleemwyvern]

how good is every word of the nato phonetic alphabet for hels tango names? lets see! this is all my opinion, yours may vary

Alfa

i could see it working, but it wouldnt be an early pick for me. kinda mid.

Bravo

very good! a tried and true hels tango name, close in vibes and sound.

Charlie

a Regular Name, works pretty well. not to be confused with charlie of impulses chocolate factory from s8 (thats a helspulse).

Delta

i like this one. great for a particularly sciency hels, ive used it for my hels zed but it can fit a tango too.

Echo

quality vibes. i think this ones really underrated, i havent seen any echo hels tangos and i think there should be one.

Foxtrot

the only other dance option. 10/10 just for that.

Golf

i dont think this is a very good name but i could see it be good for crackfics.

Hotel

probably not.

India

hm... i wouldnt use this one, but i think i could see it.

Juliett

i mean if your hels tango is a girl than its a great option.

Kilo

....... maybe?

Lima

not.... completely horrible. but its not on my list. i could see it in crackfics.

Mike

great if you want a hels tango thats Just A Guy. this is a just a guy name.

November

i guess you could but. why.

Oscar

its a name! it doesnt have particularly tangoey vibes to me though. but you could definitely use it.

Papa

please no.

Quebec

dont like this one but if you're really going to call a hels tango this than you should make him speak french.

Romeo

a good one! has the Sounds and the Vibes. lends itself to a charmer type of hels, which could be interesting.

Sierra

i could see it.

Tango

the og. sometimes he can be the hels, if thats the case then you can use this list for his overworld counterpart!

Uniform

uh, no thank you.

Victor

love this one! used it for my hels tango and it fits him very well. would recommend.

Whiskey

..... why. just, why. i cant see this working.

Xray

yeah.... i dont think this is a good name.

Yankee

crackfic Only. i cannot take this one seriously.

Zulu

the vibes dont click with me but i guess i dont hate it.

in conclusion: the quality varies drastically. there are so many options. if you cant decide just make an au where there are 25 hels tangos (one for each name) it would be really funny.

[subbyp]

Actual Literal Names tier: Charlie, Delta, Echo, India, Juliet, Mike, Oscar, Romeo, Sierra, Victor

Sure Why Not tier: Lima, November

You Have to Have a Certain Panache and Swagger tier: Alfa, Bravo, Foxtrot, Tango

Maybe As a Nickname tier: Kilo, Quebec, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee

Probably Not tier: Golf, Hotel, Papa, Uniform, Zulu

if you're transgender and need name ideas, may I direct you toward the nato alphabet because like. delta? november?? echo?? romeo is like the butchest name. please consider foxtrot. being named whiskey would be cool as hell. I know multiple transmascs who were a bit too into english lit and are named victor now. I've met people named sierra who were trans in every direction. maybe don't name yourself golf

[nayutayukiko]

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天使になれないぼくらのための服

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セット内容

┊Alfa/パーカー,インナー,パンツ

┊Bravo/パーカー,インナー,スカート,

　巻きスカート

┊Charlie/ウエストポーチ

┊Delta/ソックス,ガーター

BOOTHにて販売中です！ぜひお迎え頂けましたら嬉しいです⭐︎⸝⋆

[cybertronianrebelcorps]

So when I created the Cybertronian Rebel Corps, it was only going to be for my TFP fic. But then I started writing a movieverse fic, I went 'frag this', and put the 'boys' in that fic too so Liliy wouldn't be lonely.

However, I did change some of their names because the fic starts well before modern English is a thing so some of them needed more Cybertronian-esque names. (But they still conveniently correspond with all the letters of the English alphabet because that is just the way I am.)

TFP-verse CRC: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hirry, Indy, Julian, Kilo, Lima, Mike, Nova, Oscar, Pepper, Quebec, Romeo, Seaser, Tango, Ucon, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, and Zulu

Movieverse CRC: Alfa, Bolthex, Char, Delta, Echo, Fritz, Gearslip, Hardhit, Indent, Joules, Kilo, Lima, Micron, Nova, Onsight, Pitch, Queback, Roamin', Starwake, Tangent, Ucon, Victor, Warpkey, X-ray, Yank, Zero-IN

And since vehicons aren't really a thing in the movieverse, I did make some of the mecha Autobots before Scythe (Liliy) recruited them. Because, outside of TFP, Echo feels more like an Autobot to me, and then I just added some others besides him.

[cannibalisticdespair]

NATO Standard Phonetic Alphabet,

The phonetic alphabet was developed as a way to spell things out over radio communications that may be less then ideal, I.E. a lot of static or weak signal. All the words were chosen because they have a distinct sound that is easy to pick out. Military and police communications use the phonetic alphabet heavily and can be helpful to know for talking over CB’s or FRS (walky talky) radios.

[bwepcoast]

Hey I’m gonna rubber-ducky at you for a bit because I’m trying to keep my brain on track. I've been reading about spelling alphabets because I want to create a fictional one for my GURPS settings. For me that's the kind of thing that contributes a lot toward a believable setting so it's important to me :) This will be a rambly and probably lengthy post (brevity is not one of my strengths) and its gonna be me thinking about spelling alphabets. You can click through if you wanna read that.

So in real life today, the ICAO / NATO alphabet is the most widely used spelling alphabet in the west. That’s the aviation / military / etc. alphabet with Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, etc. I think that's the kind of thing that would sound stiff and out of place if you put it right into an 1880s scifi setting or a fantasy setting because the letters sound too real-life imo. Like if you were playing D&D and a questgiver was like showing you marked locations on a map all like, "Go to Point Echo and recover the stolen weapons cache, then meet up with Blackjack squad at Point Kilo" you'd probably be like. this isn't D&D this is Ghost Recon or somethin. That’s the out-of-place feeling I’d like to avoid.

So since the settings I’m working on at the moment exist in a time period before widespread terminology standardization across countries, I wanna come up with a bunch of these for different countries, so I’m gonna go look at older examples of spelling alphabets. Maybe those earlier alphabets will have more dated terminology or more regional terminology, and so maybe they’d be better inspirations for what I’m doing.

The British Royal Navy’s radiotelephony alphabet from 1917 has a lot of fun words. Their Royal Navy’s words for ABCD were Apples, Butter, Charlie, Duff. That definitely feels more dated than what we have now but man that’s just SO British. Too British for what I’m looking for. Lots of other European countries called their letters by either people or city names. So for example Czechia used names like Adam, Božena, Cyril, David. A more modern German alphabet uses places like Aachen, Berlin, Chemnitz, Düsseldorf. Some places used Biblical names for their alphabets. Pre-1900 Germany used numbers that corresponded with letters! There’s easily accessible Wiki entries on the Japanese and Russian spelling alphabets but I do not read those languages so it’s hard for me to store the information.

I think numbers corresponding with letters is something that would prove to be confusing for players (and me!) to keep track of so I’m gonna skip that one. I think I’ll identify well-known names and places (or foods if I want some place to have a WWI Britain flavor) within my fictional countries and start there? Or foundational people from history or religion or mythology? I like that as a starting point. Cuz then that’ll lead me into making lists of what common or important names are in different countries as well as what places are in the countries, which would all make NPC generation easy :)

If you read all this then I appreciate that! And whether you read it or not I appreciate the rubber-duckying ♥

[animeengineer]

There’s a whole lot of stuff in aviation that is just like this:

The “NATO alphabet” (alpha/alfa, bravo, charlie, delta, etc.) to make all letters distinct from each other and from numbers

Niner instead of nine so it’s distinct from five

Affirmative and negative instead of yes and no, which could be misheard easily

Air traffic control starts all messages with the tail number or call sign of the aircraft they’re talking to, and the aircraft ends every message with their tail number, so you can determine who is talking. ATC doesn’t need to identify itself because only one ATC facility is on a given frequency.

Aircraft are expected to read back what ATC told them exactly, and ATC repeats until they get it right.

Emergencies need to be declared with “Mayday,” and lesser but urgent concerns with “Pan pan,” often repeated three times.

I didn't think it was possible to shorten words verbally without removing syllables but sailors managed.

[fuzzysparrow]

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) phonetic alphabet, officially called the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, is a way of using words to replace letters. The first letter of the word is the letter the word stands for.

The phonetic alphabet is used to say letters out loud when they might be hard to hear such as over the phone, or when it is important to be accurate, such as in air travel.

The letter A is represented by the word Alfa (sometimes spelt Alpha). The words for the rest of the alphabet are Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliette, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, and Zulu. To spell out the name Alice, for example, one would say "Alfa, Lima, India, Charlie, Echo."

NATO first began using the alphabet in 1956 after years of research. The choice of words needed to have a similar spelling in at least English, French, and Spanish, the three most used languages in the (western) world. For this reason, the word the letter A is "Alfa" rather than the English spelling "Alpha", otherwise it would be mispronounced by French and Spanish speakers. Similarly, the letter J is "Juliett" because the French tend not to pronounce the last letter of a word.

[marcopolorules]

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[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Juliett Oscar November India Sierra Tango Hotel Echo Mike Alfa India November Charlie Hotel Alfa Romeo Alfa Charlie Tango Echo Romeo Oscar Foxtrot Tango Hotel Echo Mike Alfa Golf November Uniform Sierra Alfa Romeo Charlie Hotel India Victor Echo Sierra Papa Oscar Delta Charlie Alfa Sierra Tango Stop Tango Hotel Echo Oscar Papa India Sierra Alfa Tango Romeo Alfa November Sierra Charlie Romeo India Papa Tango India Oscar November Oscar Foxtrot Tango Hotel Echo Lima Echo Tango Tango Echo Romeo Uniform Sierra Echo Delta Bravo Yankee Tango Hotel Echo Charlie Hotel Alfa Romeo Alfa Charlie Tango Echo Romeo Echo Lima India Alfa Sierra Bravo Oscar Uniform Charlie Hotel Alfa Romeo Delta Tango Oscar Tango Romeo India Golf Golf Echo Romeo Alfa November Alfa Papa Oscar Charlie Alfa Lima Yankee Papa Tango India Charlie Romeo India Tango Uniform Alfa Lima Charlie Alfa Lima Lima Echo Delta Tango Hotel Echo Whiskey Alfa Tango Charlie Hotel Echo Romeo Alfa Papa Oscar Sierra Tango Romeo Oscar Papa Hotel Echo Sierra Charlie Romeo Oscar Whiskey November Charlie Oscar Mike Mike Alfa India November November Alfa Tango Oscar Papa Hotel Oscar November Echo Mike India Charlie Alfa Lima Papa Hotel Alfa Bravo Echo Tango Stop Tango Hotel India Sierra Tango Echo X-ray Tango (space) India Sierra Tango Hotel Echo Echo Quebec Uniform India Victor Alfa Lima Echo November Tango Oscar Foxtrot Alfa Romeo India Charlie Kilo Romeo Oscar Lima Lima India November Tango Hotel Echo Mike Alfa Golf November Uniform Sierra Alfa Romeo Charlie Hotel India Victor Echo Sierra Foxtrot Alfa November Delta Oscar Mike Stop

India Foxtrot Yankee Oscar Uniform Charlie Alfa November Romeo Echo Alfa Delta Tango Hotel India Sierra Tango Hotel Echo November Hotel Echo Lima Lima Oscar Juliett Oscar November Alfa Papa Oscar Lima Oscar Golf India Echo Sierra Foxtrot Oscar Romeo Tango Hotel Echo Delta Echo Charlie Echo Papa Tango India Oscar November Bravo Uniform Tango India Whiskey Alfa November Tango Echo Delta Tango Oscar Mike Alfa Kilo Echo Sierra Uniform Romeo Echo Yankee Oscar Uniform Sierra Tango Alfa Romeo Tango Echo Delta Romeo Echo Alfa Delta India November Golf Sierra Oscar India Tango Hotel Oscar Uniform Golf Hotel Tango India Tango Bravo Echo Sierra Tango November Oscar Tango Tango Oscar Alfa November November Oscar Uniform November Charlie Echo Mike Yankee Sierra Echo Lima Foxtrot

[mojavescr1pt]

hi everyone im dying but here's some misc robot designs i did for an art project and stayed up super late to complete Echo is just a TWI ripoff but nobody in my class needs to know that

[lifepros]

#8231

Learn the phonetic alphabet. It will make spelling words such as your name over the phone much easier.

Confusing "P" with "B" or "S" with "F" is easily done. Instead, use the words below.

Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu