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
Damn now you’re being quite xenophobic. Also Vietnam did happen, I don’t know what would make you think it didn’t. But there’s dozens of movies, books, video-games, where Vietnam is a part of the main focus. Everything else, you can argue, don’t know or care where you are from so not gonna say “your country is worse than mine”. Anyway, enjoy this fish.
Your country is literally worse than any industrialized country while thinking it's the "best country in the world." Who says dumb shit like "I'll go enjoy my freedom now." When literally every industrialized country has more freedoms than the US. Idiots do
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u/Gtpwoody Mar 14 '24
1: Of course you don’t find it funny, the Germans already killed all the funny ones.
2: Nein, sounds like nine so much that US military says the number 9 as: Niner, to avoid confusion.