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Old 29th Nov 2021, 20:19
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Jackonicko
 
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The Royal Air Force does not own the word 'aviator', which has an accepted, long-standing and well-understood meaning.

Which is someone who flies.

Calling every member of the RAF an 'aviator' is as silly as calling every NHS worker a 'doctor', everyone in education a 'professor', and everyone in catering a 'chef'.

Anyone involved in any kind of writing, is of course a 'Poet Laureate'.

Language needs to be clear, and widely understood. This usage is neither.

Now if people are really too fragile/too intolerant/too good to accept the terms airman and airwoman, or aircraftman and aircraftwoman, then the RAF needs to invent a replacement that does not have an existing meaning.

Avior? Avion? Avionner? Aviane? Ardile? Brylcreamer?
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