CFIs: THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE!

"John T Lowry" wrote in message
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IRregardless? Yes, I know it's (lately) in the dictionary, but so are a
lot of barbarisms.


You ain't gettin the point of this thread, are ya?

Anyway, the dictionary is no authority on grammar. It is more like a
newspaper; it reports common usage, but rarely passes judgment on what is
proper.

I get it, I just hadn't gotten around to telling about my first
instructor. I had trouble with landings because on short approach he
kept telling me "Just keep it in there!" I took that to mean (I'm
somewhat literal-minded) to keep the controls right where they were.
What he actually meant was to manipulate the controls as needed to keep
the attitude and airspeed of the airplane right where they were.

Actually, with the recent "whatever" generation, I've given up on the
entire "proper language" issue. Mrs. Malaprop must have been VERY
fertile. Though I admit I still get a bit exercised over the gaffes on
TV; it seems they go out of their way to hire illiterates, especially
for writing the crawl along the lower portion of the screen.

John Lowry
Flight Physics

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"John T Lowry" wrote in message
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IRregardless? Yes, I know it's (lately) in the dictionary, but so are
a
lot of barbarisms.


You ain't gettin the point of this thread, are ya?

Anyway, the dictionary is no authority on grammar. It is more like a
newspaper; it reports common usage, but rarely passes judgment on what
is
proper.

John T Lowry wrote:
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Though I admit I still get a bit exercised over the gaffes on
TV; it seems they go out of their way to hire illiterates, especially

for writing the crawl along the lower portion of the screen.


Our local newscasters are the worst. You can tell as soon as they
depart from the script on the teleprompter to make insightful comments
on the story. They just start stringing a bunch of words together and
in their quest to sound knowledgable (and to fill 10 seconds), they
often end up saying the opposite of what they intended to say.

The sad part is that no one seems to be the least bit embarrassed
about such performances.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

" wrote:

The sad part is that no one seems to be the least bit embarrassed
about such performances.

That doesn't mean that they aren't embarrassed. Back when I played coffeehouses
and bars, I learned to give no signs when I missed a chord. If I didn't grimace,
most of the people in the audience never knew I screwed up -- especially when I
played bars ;-)

George Patterson
He who marries for money earns every penny of it.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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" wrote:

The sad part is that no one seems to be the least bit embarrassed
about such performances.

That doesn't mean that they aren't embarrassed. Back when I played
coffeehouses
and bars, I learned to give no signs when I missed a chord. If I didn't
grimace,
most of the people in the audience never knew I screwed up -- especially
when I
played bars ;-)

George:
BTDT totally agree!!!!!!!!!

Bob Barker N8749S

Like, what are youse guys like, tawking about? Like, the skool
system izn't like, doing its job, like? Like i dont know how to spel,
like. Duh. Dontcha know that any old spelling is ok? Like, who makes
these dumb rules anyway? What a looser.
Near our uncontrolled field there's a lot of training traffic, and
many of the instructors make position reports on the common ATF and ask
that "any conflictions please reply." New word, I guess. The students
pick it up. Pretty soon it'll be in the dictionary.

Dan