lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"
lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"
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How am I supposed to just stop using this word?? How else is the plane supposed to tell me to put thrust at idle during landing? This is ridiculous.
no hate to you but i do hate that this is one of the default responses the internet has chosen when discussing this language (twice now in this thread)
i guess it’s like a growing pains thing, but it strikes me as very middle schooler, kind of like bringing up that one word that means unwilling to share with others.
one is a noun/adjective, the other is a verb. entirely different words that simply have the same Latin root. one is used in a professional context in an industry nearly none of us are familiar with, the other i come across as a derogatory on this site pretty much hourly. please let’s grow up a bit about this.
(again no hate to you specifically commenter, it was a funny joke and i just want to call out the broader trend)
It probably gets annoying as a bystander, but I don't have a lot of opportunities to bring aviation into the rest of my life. Especially in a way that's mildly funny.
honestly happy for you lol i think both of our emotional investments are valid
This is a real convo I had with middle schoolers when I did a stint as a teacher.
"But teacher why I can't I say SHITAKE? it's a mushroom. And James is acting like a little SHITAKE head."
literally multiple instances of this happening under this post
Just don't use it to refer to people and you're golden. There are many slurs that are also legitimate scientific terms, like how fag(g)ot is a bundle of sticks, or how in physics you have the Advanced and the Retarded Green's functions.
this is the way
fag(g)ot is a bundle of sticks
Fagot is also what a bassoon is called in Danish, Dutch, Spanish, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, Latvian, Slovak and Czech, for some reason lol.
Not sure about the pronunciation, though, even though the first of those is my native language 😄
Its fa-'got, fyi. Similar to the slur, but the second syllable is stressed, like the word for good. That is in your native language to be clear, I don't know about the others.
Same in German
Also in Finnish (fagotti), but the word doesn't have any other meaning in Finnish language. There's slur (hintti, hinttari) that's equivalent to the English counterpart though
To be fair to Airbus,
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They probably chose the language for that call-out way before 2009. Airplanes can live for thirty years, and type designs can keep going several decades longer
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The designers were also likely to be French, but they selected English call-outs. This seems to me like a case where they picked a word that's technically in the OED l, but is actually much more common in French.
I mean, if it’s a valid word for what they want to say, then I don’t really see a problem. It’s pronounced the same, but it’s a completely different word.
Same with a pork meatball or cigarette in the UK.
What's the meatball called? Or is it the same as a cig?
What's the meatball called?
Ron DeSantis
The longer version of what the cigarette’s called
Rhymes with maggot?
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Tell airbus to use the proper term “intellectually disabled” instead
Airbus is Ableist!