"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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Because we pilots insist on speaking a secret language that uses everyday
words like "stall" to mean something completely different from what the
other 99.8% of the population means by the word. If we want to be
understood, why don't we just speak English?


My English dictionary includes the definition "a condition in which an
aircraft or airfoil experiences an interruption of airflow resulting in loss
of lift and a tendency to drop" for "stall".