Wait....seriously? "Alfa?"

FX2K

FX2K
Alfa's are not known for their reliability or build quality, so seems fitting for the current Odyssey Alpha Alfa.
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rOmiLaYu

rOmiLaYu
FX2K said:
Alfa's are not known for their reliability or build quality, so seems fitting for the current Odyssey Alpha Alfa.
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But the "alfa" in "Alfa Romeo" is an acronym and it has nothing to do with the Greek Alphabet...which is why I thought them spelling it "Alfa" might have been an "oopsie."
 

Erei

Erei
rOmiLaYu said:
On foot combat zones. There are several "capture the flag" areas that spawn through out the duration of the fight. Capturing them makes the enemies number of reinforcements go down and they are named Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, and Foxtrot. In the top right corner of the on foot HUD you can see a progress bar for taking each site. I've never noticed it before and just so happened to look at it when the game was displaying the bar for the "Alfa" site. Never seen it spelled that way in my life, so I was just wondering if it was the Queen's English or an "uh-oh."
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Ok, serious TIL.

So, the alpha bravo... we use for the capture point is the NATO phonetic alphabet, which most people are aware of (even if they don't know how it's called). Which is also used in game for your ship callsign.

Now, I always thought it was "Alpha". Well...
Wikipedia about the NATO alphabet :
In the official version of the alphabet, the non-English spellings Alfa and Juliett are used. Alfa is spelled with an f as it is in most European languages because the English and French spelling alpha would not be pronounced properly by native speakers of some other languages – who may not know that ph should be pronounced as f. Juliett is spelled with a tt for French speakers, because they may otherwise treat a single final t as silent. Some published versions use the English spellings "Alpha" and "Juliet" – presumably because of the use of spell checker software.
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rOmiLaYu

rOmiLaYu
Erei said:
Ok, serious TIL.

So, the alpha bravo... we used for the capture point is the NATO phonetic alphabet, which most people are aware of (even if they don't know how it's called). Which is also used in game for your ship callsign.

Now, I always thought it was "Alpha". Well...
Wikipedia about the NATO alphabet :
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Mais, il faudrait dire que "Juliette" serait mieux que "Juliett?" Non?

I knew an old fellow whose last name was Chivers. Stateside that would be pronounced with hard "ch" sound up front, followed by "eh-vurs." But every time he went to France people called "She-vers." So he took to spelling his name "Tchivers" while over there just so people would pronounce it appropriately... to his ear anyways.

Well, there's that solved. I had no idea that only the French and Americans spelled it "alpha."
 

rOmiLaYu

rOmiLaYu
Ben, super! Il y avait quelques annes, que j'habitais labas. C'etait un de mes plusieur decision difficulte de ma vie de rentrer dans l'avion pour retourner chez moi.

Forgive the lack of accents. American keyboard layout and whatnot.
 

Erei

Erei
rOmiLaYu said:
Ben, super! Il y avait quelques annes, que j'habitais labas. C'etait un de mes plusieur decision difficulte de ma vie de rentrer dans l'avion pour retourner chez moi.

Forgive the lack of accents. American keyboard layout and whatnot.
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Don't worry, I don't use accents either :D
I was never good with grammar and stuff.

I'm glad you had a good time in our country :)
 

rOmiLaYu

rOmiLaYu
Erei said:
Don't worry, I don't use accents either :D
I was never good with grammar and stuff.

I'm glad you had a good time in our country :)
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I lived in Amboise for awhile. It was everything rural, idyllic French life should be. Markets every Sunday on the Loire. Wineries across the street. There was a brasserie on the river, La Comedie, I'd eat there almost every night. Steak frites and 50cl Heineken and Leffe until they shut the lights off. I truly loved it. Paris and Marseilles on the other hand, you can keep! Normandy was lovely...and it was profoundly moving to see the beach where my grandfather and landed so many years ago.
 

Erei

Erei
rOmiLaYu said:
I lived in Amboise for awhile. It was everything rural, idyllic French life should be. Markets every Sunday on the Loire. Wineries across the street. There was a brasserie on the river, La Comedie, I'd eat there almost every night. Steak frites and 50cl Heineken and Leffe until they shut the lights off. I truly loved it. Paris and Marseilles on the other hand, you can keep! Normandy was lovely...and it was profoundly moving to see the beach where my grandfather and landed so many years ago.
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Thanks for your grandfather heroism :)

We wouldn't be there without people like him :D

Anyway, I feel we are going off topic quite a bit :D
 
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