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0 pointsAnarch157a7y ago0 comments

> Think about how difficult it can be to read a number over the phone.

Same thing is true for words, there are words in my native portuguese that are dificult to tell from each other even in person, imagine by phone. If some one misunderstands a word and it's valid on a combination?

For example (in portuguese), Paca.Tatu.Cotia (Paca.Armadilo.Agouti in english) can be misheard as Maca.Tatu.Quati (Stretcher.Armadilo.Coati in english). What if both combinations are valid, but thousands of km away ?

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roywiggins7y ago

The NATO alphabet was built to solve nearly exactly this problem. It's quite verbose (by design).

79527y ago

But because they are thousands of km away it is easy for a human to tell which is correct based on context. And the search screen works very well. It autocorrects, gives a distance and a country flag.

I understand the difficulty with speech, but that is true of any verbal communication.

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