Nurbi
New member
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2015
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- German
- Home Country
- Germany
- Current Location
- Germany
Dear forum
I hope I address this at the right place. I am German and I use english as a foreign language. I have to communicate with native english speakers (from UK mainly) on the phone. I often have to talk about cryptical catalogue IDs, article numbers or other strings which I prefer to spell character by character to avoid confusion. Whenever I look up the internet for a commonly used spelling alphabet I find the NATO/ICAN table (Alpha, Bravo, Charly...). Now a colleague told me that using the NATO alphabet makes me sound like a militarist if I use it to spell article IDs for Barbie-clothing or fish food.
What is your opinion? Would you agree with him?
Would you recommend me to use the NATO/ICAN alphabet?
Which spelling alphabet would a native english speaker use on the phone?
Thank you for your help,
cheers,
Nurbi
I hope I address this at the right place. I am German and I use english as a foreign language. I have to communicate with native english speakers (from UK mainly) on the phone. I often have to talk about cryptical catalogue IDs, article numbers or other strings which I prefer to spell character by character to avoid confusion. Whenever I look up the internet for a commonly used spelling alphabet I find the NATO/ICAN table (Alpha, Bravo, Charly...). Now a colleague told me that using the NATO alphabet makes me sound like a militarist if I use it to spell article IDs for Barbie-clothing or fish food.
What is your opinion? Would you agree with him?
Would you recommend me to use the NATO/ICAN alphabet?
Which spelling alphabet would a native english speaker use on the phone?
Thank you for your help,
cheers,
Nurbi