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Would anyone please help me understand the benefits of this? :). This approach (and other approaches proposed in this thread) seems to add complexity but it's

Would anyone please help me understand the benefits of this? :). This approach (and other approaches proposed in this thread) seems to add complexity but it's not that much better than just reading the characters normally. > B78D would be 'onze mille sept cents huitante treize' Or just read it: B, 7, 8, D. To space out a long hex number, read it in group of 4, with a pause. The approach, other than it's not being shorter, also risks miscommunication due to the receiver might not be familiar with it, or due to the sound system has multiple very similar sounds (but totally will change the meaning when misheard) like -teen and -ty.

apocolyps6 7y ago
Don't you think that's a bit of a strawman? The user is explaining how that number is pronounced in their native Swiss French. Clearly nobody is suggesting you have to learn French to say some numbers.
- thanhhaimai 7y ago
  I think this might be the disconnect between us. From my point of view as a non-native English speaker, the approach proposed in the tweet and that Swiss French system both requires the user to learn a new system. To me, both of that carry more drawbacks than just reading the hex character by character, in a group of 4. I can give an example using the system in the tweet: 2F3E: twenty frost thirty ernest -- longer to read, 7 sounds. 2F3E: 2, F, 3, E -- shorter to read, 4 sounds. Looking at that, I don't see the benefits and trade offs of that new complexity, and that's why I asked for help :)
  - mjevans 7y ago
    I also prefer just reading off the short version; either in sets of (up to) 4 or 2, depending on the application. For a mac address I'd not summarize and just read it off in 6 pairs. For the example representation address on the wikipedia page... 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address ) Two Zero Zero One Colon Delta Bravo Eight Colon Eight Five Alpha Three Colon (pause) Colon Eight Alpha Two Echo Colon Three Seven Zero Colon Seven Three Three Four. The part in the middle might need a better way of announcing, but given the double digits in other parts of the address it seems more natural to read it as a string of characters than to alter it.
    - ummonk 7y ago
      You missed a colon but yeah. (I would just pronounce a single zero in between the colons instead of pausing to be extra clear)

apocolyps6 7y ago

Don't you think that's a bit of a strawman? The user is explaining how that number is pronounced in their native Swiss French. Clearly nobody is suggesting you have to learn French to say some numbers.

thanhhaimai 7y ago
I think this might be the disconnect between us. From my point of view as a non-native English speaker, the approach proposed in the tweet and that Swiss French system both requires the user to learn a new system. To me, both of that carry more drawbacks than just reading the hex character by character, in a group of 4. I can give an example using the system in the tweet: 2F3E: twenty frost thirty ernest -- longer to read, 7 sounds. 2F3E: 2, F, 3, E -- shorter to read, 4 sounds. Looking at that, I don't see the benefits and trade offs of that new complexity, and that's why I asked for help :)
- mjevans 7y ago
  I also prefer just reading off the short version; either in sets of (up to) 4 or 2, depending on the application. For a mac address I'd not summarize and just read it off in 6 pairs. For the example representation address on the wikipedia page... 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address ) Two Zero Zero One Colon Delta Bravo Eight Colon Eight Five Alpha Three Colon (pause) Colon Eight Alpha Two Echo Colon Three Seven Zero Colon Seven Three Three Four. The part in the middle might need a better way of announcing, but given the double digits in other parts of the address it seems more natural to read it as a string of characters than to alter it.
  - ummonk 7y ago
    You missed a colon but yeah. (I would just pronounce a single zero in between the colons instead of pausing to be extra clear)