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From military lingo: "Roger" meaning "Received and understood"... exactly what you're looking for "I acknowledge what you said". Sometimes used as "Roger that"
by PKop 9y ago
From military lingo:
"Roger" meaning "Received and understood"... exactly what you're looking for "I acknowledge what you said". Sometimes used as "Roger that"
I learned this in the army and still use often in conversation or text.
- jghn 9y agoExcept that colloquially it seems to be used basically like ok, particularly with the roger that
- muraiki 9y agoI worked a job where I would use roger in this sense. After I put in my 2 week's notice, a coworker told me that this actually annoyed my boss to no end. We used IRC extensively for communications, so I wrote an IRC bot that would reply "roger" to everything he said (along with some other sayings that annoyed him) and cron'd it to run a week after I had left.* * The rest of the story is that I wrote two bots to say different things, but forgot that they'd trigger "roger" off of each other, so the end result is that I had two bots constantly spamming the channel with "roger". I guess I should have written tests!
- dctoedt 9y agoIIRC, "Roger" came about in the early days of voice-radio communication as the old-style phonetic alphabet version of "R" (in the modern phonetic alphabet, "R" would be "Romeo") ; the single letter R was a "prosign" abbreviation used in Morse-code telegraphy (as • — • or dot-dash-dot) to indicate "received and understood." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations
- chiph 9y agoI can't help but think of the battle droids in the (mythical) Star Wars prequels. Roger Roger. And now you'll be thinking that all day. Sorry.
- madcaptenor 9y agoBut then what happens when you hire someone named Roger?
- dctoedt 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfDUkR3DOFw#t=54s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfDUkR3DOFw#t=54s (from Airplane!)
- type0 9y agothat sounds awful if you speak to someone who's named Roger