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How to do almost anything by hand, and the phonetic alphabet (specifically nato phonetic alphabet) can be useful for misunderstandings. I want to learn shavian, an alphabet optimized for english, just for fun.
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The NATO alphabet comes in handy sometimes
Multiplication table.... One day I'll get those 7s and 8s.
(I'm 40).
U know what you've done
Why the 7s and 8s? Right? Like that's the two that people struggle with.
It's Strange.
If you're involved in any kind of protest, the phone number of a lawyer. Hell, generalize this. Make sure you memorize numbers of at least the first few of your emergency contacts. You never know when you will be separated from your phone.
You know, you are allowed to cheat in this test. Just write those numbers on your arm with a permanent marker or whatever. Get a fake tattoo, if you want.
0118999881999119725... 3
I've taken a bit of a tumble.
White-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown.
Is... Is this the order for wiring rj45 connectors?
Specifically, T568... B.
First aid procedures.
P Sherman 42 wallaby Way Sydney
Proper sequence of attaching jumper cables.
That one is easy positive, negative, nipple, nipple.
Basically any song on guitar that I like. I can sing the entire song back to front, but I can't for the life of me remember the chord sequences. And I've been playing for many years.
How to convert various units of measurement. (Including between imperial and metric.)
2.54 centimeters in an inch. Degrees Fahrenheit is nine fifths of degrees Celsius plus 32. Stuff like that.
The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet
...for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.
Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.
This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.
As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you'll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.
So, learn it, and you never need to go "M as in...uh...'Mancy"'? ever again! Your IT department might thank you.
...and let's be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)
Converting between hexadecimal and binary. It's not that hard and it would've been useful many times, but I still haven't memorised it
The general knowledge of prefixes, suffixes and sentence structure of the language families/subgroups, in order to better grasp a basic understanding of a common language when I encounter it, and be more respective - for example knowing when to use -kun, Fraulein, seΓ±ora, and courteous actions native to the locale
knowing when to use [...] FrΓ€ulein
That's an easy one: never.
It's outdated and no longer used as a title. And mildly derogatory as a standalone word.
At least in Germany. Not sure about Austria or Switzerland, tbh, they might well be more traditional about it.
Your wife's birthday?
how to division in your head. i always have to go the long way round.
Fa Do Sol RΓ© La Mi Si
(F....C....G....D...A...E...B)
this is the order in which sharps go. Gives you the tonality of a given song. Let's say the song takes 4 sharps- take the last one (RΓ©/D), add a half-tone to it (Mi/E), there it is, your song is in E major
It works with flats as well, in the reverse order (Si Mi La RΓ© Sol Do Fa). Take the next-to-last flat, that is your tonality.
That's cool!
I don't understand any of it. (ELI5 please? Thanks for sharing this anyway!)
^Have^ ^a^ ^great^ ^day,^ ^be^ ^kind,^ ^and^ ^thanks^ ^for^ ^sharing!^ ^:D^
It's helpful if given a partition (with sharps or flats duly noted in the key signature), of which you want to quickly know the key -thus the tonic chord, usually the one any given song begins and ends with... broadly speaking. With this mnemonic you can immediately tell what the key is and start playing. Of course most people who play an instrument have developed their ear so that they can find the key of most songs they hear intuitively/empirically, the trick is useful with a partition only.
