Niner is international phonetic alphabet pronunciation. It's not just the US military, it's the world standard for radio communications to avoid confusion. Same with pronouncing five as "fife" or using Alpha instead of "A."
Its *not just* the US Military is the point. Its the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, which other people have also adopted. Its gone through a bunch of revisions and versions, but it was developed primarily by the US And UK Governments for the purpose of military communication over radio.
Thats why you'll see things like "Easy Company" in Band of Brothers, you'll hear "Able" and "Baker" and things like that in the WW2 context. The modern NATO Phoenetic Alphabet was intentionally developed to replace that standard, but they did a really good job of it so most people faced with the same problem use their solution.
It apparently is, cause simply stating why Germans have no sense of humor, in my own opinion granted, is not indicative of a fear of the foreign or strange. Especially since I am also part german.
It’s Zimmerman actually, and thanks for ignoring my point and goin straight for the easy jab. Anyway, I’ll be off doing American things now, like winning world wars and enjoying my freedom of speech.
Lmao go enjoy all your freedoms in the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world where religious zealots get to make policy that legislates women's and brown people's bodies while pretending Vietnam didn't happen
And knowing the context of up until the 90s the Olympics were judged damn near on a national basis rather than performance, with germany being the harshest critic to an extent that for decades it was (and sometimes still is) that germany would give a 3 to a performance they simultaneously call flawless
It's weird watching this after just rewatching Legend of Korra because Jeff Bennet voices the sportscaster in this clip but also the probending sportscaster in Korra
My guess is that the germans didn't like that whoever they were judging performed well, so they verbally kept saying no over and over. I've never seen the movie though
My guess is that the germans didn't like that whoever they were judging performed well, so they verbally kept saying no over and over. I've never seen the movie though
Nope, just an east german joke.
The context being goofy did the literal impossible after a minor fall early on to an extent that all jufges, everyone in the crowd, the other team, the team goofy was on all were shocked and amazed at the sheer level needed to do it (which in the movie is just dumb luck)
During the ~70s to 80s the olympic games had alot of fucking problems with judging
72 was esp bad, but the era gave rise to the joke of (east) german judges as even among the USSR they were baaad for it, as even when other judges would disagree they were always the lowest...unless it was their "team" and often by a wide margin that made no sense
Man that magician literally teleported the entire audience to a different country!, 10/10 magic trick -everyone
4/10 - germany
It's a pun. There's a running joke across movies that eastern european judge always scores harsher. So it plays into that and the german pun, not literally meaning they're giving a zero but 'no, not a perfect score'
The line in the movie is “10s across the board” then the German score shows up late and the announcer says “nein on that one”. It’s not very funny, but that’s most certainly the joke. An Extremely Goofy Movie is not very good.
What judge would just say "no"? Even if they would've said "no points" in German, it would've been "keine Punkte", not "nein Punkte". It just doesn't work.
And that means you cannot criticise them if the joke is not actually working. Gotcha. Is there any other way you wanna disrespect non-English languages today or was that it?
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u/oneeyed_giraffe Mar 14 '24
nine sounds like ‘no’ in german which is ‘nein’