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PHONETIC ALPHABET, 2009/2010

THE RADIOPHONIC ALPHABETS, INTERNATIONALLY USED AND RECOGNIZED, ORIGINATED FROM THE TWO SO-CALLED WORLD WARS, IN THE LAST CENTURY. THESE ACROPHONIC ALPHABETS (IN WHICH EACH WORD REPRESENTS ITS INITIAL LETTER) ARE USED TO AVOID MISINTERPRETATIONS AND KEEP MISTAKES PROBABILITIES TO THE VERY LEAST, EVERY TIME THE MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF A COMBINATION OF LETTERS SEEMS TO BE CRUCIAL. IT IS NOT EASY TO FIND WORDS THAT CAN BE PRONOUNCED AND DECODIED IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, AND THE ALPHABET KNOWN AS ABLE BAKER, CREATED BY US ARMY IN 1941 AND THEN ADOPTED BY CIVIL AVIATION, CONTAINED SUCH AN AMOUNT OF SOUNDS UNIQUE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THAT ANOTHER SPELLING ALPHABET, CALLED ANA BRAZIL, WAS USED IN LATIN AMERICA. CURRENTLY, THE MOST USED OF THESE CODES IS THE INTERNATIONAL RADIOTELEPHONY SPELLING ALPHABET, ALSO KNOWN AS THE OTAN PHONETIC ALPHABET, WHICH, DESPITE ITS REFERENCE TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC, IS USED BY CIVIL AVIATION COMPANIES AND RADIO AMATEURS THROUGHOUT THE PLANET. EVEN IF IT DEPARTED FROM THE RECOGNITION OF A NECESSITY TO FIND COMMON SOUNDS TO ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH, THE OTAN ALPHABET COMPRISES A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF WORDS THAT REFER TO ANGLO-SAXON CULTURE: ALFA BRAVO CHARLIE DELTA ECHO FOXTROT GOLF HOTEL INDIA JULIET KILO LIMA MIKE NOVEMBER OSCAR PAPA QUEBEC ROMEO SIERRA TANGO UNIFORM VICTOR WHISKY XRAY YANKEE ZULU. IRONICALLY ENOUGH, ROMEO AND JULIET, SHAKESPEARE’S CHARACTERS CONDEMNED TO A TRAGIC ENDING DUE TO MISCOMMUNICATION, ARE INCLUDED IN THIS LIST. ALFABETO FONÉTICO IS A PROPOSITION TO CREATE A NEW SPELLING ALPHABET, TRYING TO USE WORDS OF AN INTERNATIONAL MEANING AND SPELLING, EVEN IF THEIR PRONUNCIATION IS ADAPTED TO THE PHONETICS OF EACH DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND THE CUSTOMARY SOUNDS OF EACH COUNTRY. SOME OF THE SELECTED WORDS, DERIVING FROM LATIN OR GREEK, WERE INITIALLY SCIENTIC OR MYTHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND ENDED UP BEING USED IN DAILY BASIS (SUCH AS ATLAS OR FLORA); SOME OTHERS ARE SO SPECIC TO A CERTAIN CULTURE OR GEOGRAPHY THAT TEND TO BE USED EVERY TIME A REFERENCE TO THEIR CONNOTATION IS NEEDED OR DESIRED (SUCH AS HAREM OR NINJA); AND SOME SEEM TO HAVE BECOME TRANSNATIONAL DUE TO THE NEED OF THEM BEING RECOGNIZED BY FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE (SUCH AS CAMPING OR TAXI).

PANORAMA, 2001

PHOTOGRAPHS ENLARGED FROM GLASS NEGATIVES BELONGING TO THE MUSEU DE AERONÁUTICA DA FUNDAÇÃO SANTOS DUMONT; VIEW TO THE PAVILHÃO LUCAS NOGUEIRA GARCEZ OR PHOTO OF THIS VIEW TAKEN BY EDOUARD FRAIPONT; FACSIMILE FROM THE COVER OF “ILUSTRADA”, FOLHA DE S. PAULO, MAY 24, 2000; PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY BY ALICE VERGUEIRO MADE AT THE CENTRO MUNICIPAL DE CAMPISMO, PUBLISHED AT THE BOOK PANORAMA DA ARTE BRASILEIRA 2001, PP. 32 TO 41; SEVEN INTERVIEWS PUBLISHED AT ITEM-5, FEBRUARY 2002, PP. 118 TO 125. COLLECTION MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA DE SÃO PAULO THIS PROJECT, DEVELOPED FOR THE PANORAMA DA ARTE BRASILEIRA 2001 EXHIBITION, CONSISTS OF: 1. TWO COPIES FROM EACH OF THE TEN PHOTOGRAPHS, ENLARGED FROM SELECTED GLASS NEGATIVES BELONGING TO THE MUSEU DE AERONÁUTICA DA FUNDAÇÃO SANTOS DUMONT, SÃO PAULO (A COPY OF EACH PICTURE HAS BEEN DONATED TO THIS INSTITUTION). 2. A WINDOW OPENED AT THE MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA DE SÃO PAULO PANELS, THROUGH WHICH THE VISITORS COULD SEE THE PAVILHÃO LÚCIO NOGUEIRA GARCEZ, WHERE THE MUSEU DE AERONÁUTICA HAS BEEN LOCATED UNTIL RECENTLY. 3. A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY TAKEN AT THE PLACE TO WHICH THE MUSEU DE AERONÁUTICA COLLECTION HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY REMOVED AND FINALLY LEFT, SHOWING THE CONDITIONS OF ITS MAINTENANCE. 4. A FACSIMILE OF A LOCAL NEWSPAPER CULTURAL SECTION COVER, WITH AN ARTICLE REVEALING POLITICAL STRATEGIES THAT SURROUNDED THE REMOVAL OF THE MUSEU DE AERONÁUTICA FROM THE PARQUE IBIRAPUERA. THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ARTICLE WAS NOT ALLOWED BY THE MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA, BECAUSE SOME OF THE INSTITUTIONS DIRECTORS’ STATEMENTS IN IT. A BLANK PAGE WITH THE NEWSPAPER NAME AND DATE WAS INCLUDED INSTEAD. 5. SEVEN INTERVIEWS WITH THE PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT AND ESPECIALLY IN THE PUBLICATION OF THE REFERRED ARTICLE, DISCUSSING THE INSTITUTIONAL AND PERSONAL ISSUES THAT DID NOT ALLOW ITS REPRODUCTION. COMPLEX LOCAL POLITICAL ISSUES LEAD TO THIS RELOCATION OF THE MUSEU DE AERONÁUTICA. THIS PROJECT INTENDS TO CREATE SOME INDEXES OF THE RELATION BETWEEN THE ABANDONED COLLECTION IT PARTIALLY RECOVERS AND THOSE POLITICAL INTERESTS. THIS SPECIFIC CASE BECOMES AN EXAMPLE FROM WHICH IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK OF THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE BEHIND DECISIONS TAKEN IN THE FIELD OF CULTURE AND PATRIMONY.

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