• sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      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)

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        6 months ago

        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.

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          6 months ago

          honestly happy for you lol i think both of our emotional investments are valid

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        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.”

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          This is rich coming from the crowd who throws a tantrum every time someone requests they stop saying a word

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          You know what else I’m upset about? There’s this insidious figure who has caused unimaginable grief and pain, hiding behind a facade of normalcy. He’s responsible for countless horrors, using his cunning and deceit to further his dark ambitions. His actions have shattered lives and spread fear like wildfire. Yeah, I’m talking about William Afton. If there’s one person who truly deserves all the anger and outrage, it’s definitely him.

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            6 months ago

            It’s been so long, since last I’ve seen my son, lost to this monster, to the man behind the slaughter

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      6 months ago

      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.

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        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 😄

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      6 months ago

      To be fair to Airbus,

      1. 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

      2. 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.