What's hard to pick up about "Romeo Lima Papa"? And then how do you get a five letter waypoint from three letters? Surely if everyone else can understand it...
It is when a French controller says it.
So sorry LSM, we really don't care what you think about our ATC system, it is still the best. Fix your own house before bitching about ours.
Actually don't, as London is close to the US when comes to the best and they are more like the US than any other country.
As one BA captain posted on the same subject a few years ago, paraphrased of course; 'Say what you like about the US ATC system, but when inbound to Los Angles from London and on the first radar contact with the US, we're cleared direct to the gate for the LAX arrival, from all the way across the county, speaks volumes'.