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Old 01-23-2016, 10:24 AM
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Default Re: Harvard Sentences

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Originally Posted by DonaldM View Post
Many of the standardized phrases the military uses (ie "roger wilco") came about largely from Black's research on intelligibility of speech across electronic communications systems.
Very interesting.
I guess, that is why in the Air Force the official way is to say "affirm" on radio and not "affirmative", because when hearing only "....tive" it could be interpreted as "negative" (a possible lethal mistake).
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