I am constantly looking for new ways to improve my writing skills and my interpersonal skills, which in my opinion help a person be professional. Tower Controller: The previous departure had an issue with the engine. Tower Controller: Roger, go around. Fly runway heading, maintain Peter Otieno I have a bachelor's degree in Economics and Statistics and am currently a top-rated copywriter. You might also like.
Passivity vs. Valentina Dordevic. Amongst vs. Geoffrey Mutie. And is it "Roger that. It is obvious that either "Roger! Another follow-up question,please. If we do not use either of the two, are we left with only those plain English words or phrases like "OK.
There could be plenty of replacements to say you understand, including informal 'words' like "gotcha. I don't know whether the word should be capitalized or not. Wikipedia suggests it came from the radio alphabet used at the time, and shows the word capitalized. Contrary to popular belief, Roger does not mean or imply "I will comply".
That distinction goes to the contraction wilco from, "will comply" , which is used exclusively if the speaker intends to say "received and will comply. Bigote Blanco said:. Looks perfect to me. However, when you are writing a text message you generally wouldn't use proper grammar anyway. I am a student and I use "roger" or sometimes "roger that", the meaning is understood either way while speaking to friends or in online chat.
Last edited by a moderator: Oct 16, Do you mean that there's no need for any punctuation? My yr-old wouldn't have a clue if you sent her a text that said "Roger" or "Roger that.
Instead, she might just reply "k" or "kk" short for ok and okok or "kl" short for "cool". You have to consider who's on the receiving end of the text before you can decide whether "Roger" is ok or not. Personally, I'd find it really weird in a text. My daughter and I imitate the language of US action movies and text each other copy to indicate that we have received and understood a message.
And neither one of us is a spring chicken. Wayland Banned English. Roger was used as a code word qv phonetic alphabet to facilitate aural understanding in the military when radio communications were prone to static interference and signal weakening etc.
I would think that if used at all in textspeak it would be rgr or some such. But I am sure that texters have come up with their own usages. Ann O'Rack said:. In a text message I don't have any idea. For normal, formal written language the punctuation appears perfect. English-Ireland top end. If you think about the kind of stuff that appears in texts these days, the idea that someone would go to the bother of composing Roger or roger seems quite silly.
Please tell me how to punctuate them properly in formal written language when the situation calls for it. If I were you, I would advise my students never to use this expression. Richard, They would be capitalized and followed by either a period or an exclamation point, as you originally posted, because they are complete responses, by themselves.
It may be commonly used in civilian air traffic and radio communications these days, but it is no longer used by the military except on TV and in some movies. In fact, it hasn't been used in decades by the military. This may be another reason that some people feel it is 'old-fashioned' or doesn't make sense in the context of a text message. Cypherpunk said:. The situation never calls for it. Roger, Roger. I'll work on that right away and also while I'm working on that could we have a confirmation, a confirmation, on earlier transmission from AF-1, stating that the commercial telephone service, I say again, commercial telephone service for the Johnson residence should be discontinued with a direct line to -- eh -- White House.
Do you Roger that? Popular now. Who uses Roger that? Note This is not meant to be a formal definition of Roger that like most terms we define on Dictionary. Redefine your inbox with Dictionary. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
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