Media droning on again...

[Willard Whyte]

One wonders if those who get in a frightful old flap about the use of the word drone, also drone on when people use figures of speech such as "it's freezing cold" when the temperature isn't exactly 0 centigrade.*

Life is just too short for that kind of anal retentiveness.


* just a little test...

[Lima Juliet]

Coff

That's brilliant - especially given BEags' dislike for the gas BBQ! Where can I buy one so I can hover it over BEagle Towers firing snorkers and dropping burgers with abandon?

LJ

[Lima Juliet]

Willard

I guess it's the same as the 'apostraphe police' and the 'spelling kommando' that haunt PPrune - ie. it's bl00dy annoying when the wrong words are used!

LJ

[Haraka]

Laziness in language is redolent of laziness in thinking.
There are those among us who freely indulge in it and who are not cognisant of, nor accountable for, its possible consequences.
However, there are others who are.

[melmothtw]

Beverley.
First flight (as the "Universal Freighter") 20 June 1950, so younger than the Canberra.

Captain( Harold Wood) to Co-Pilot (D.G. Brade) on lifting off from Brough.

"Well, my side's airborne!"

A post of yours from 4 April Haraka. If you're going to pick up others on their spelling and/or grammer and be such a pompous p***k about it, you should note that you too can be called out.

For future reference, when using brackets the space comes after the preceding word, not after the opening bracket. Captain( Harold Wood) should be Captain (Harold Wood).

Feel slightly debased for having been brought down to your level, but laziness in language is redolent of laziness in thinking.

[Mil-26Man]

Owned Haraka. Pompous p***k indeed.

[Windy Militant]

Hmm I thought it came from the noise Bees made in the hive, which then became used to describe musical instruments esp Bagpipes and of course to describe boring monotonous speeches as in 'He Droned on and on' much as happens here!

[Lima Juliet]

Memothtw

You see mate, you just had to do it. No Apostraphe Police, but Herr Spelling Kommando has stood to, with immediate effect.

It's "grammar", not "grammer"!

Plus, the Punctuation Warrant Officer would like to have a word with you as well!

LJ

[Haraka]

Captain( Harold Wood) should be Captain (Harold Wood)

Why thank you melmothtw for your observation. When I am next over on that thread, I'll be sure to correct it.

[melmothtw]

Not necessary Haraka. We're here to discuss ideas, not to nit-pick spelling/grammar.

LJ, there's an 'l' in my moniker. Easily done, isn't it.

[Lima Juliet]

Melmothtw

Fair dos. What is a "melmothtw", anyway?

LJ

[melmothtw]

Melmothtw? Melmoth the wanderer. It's a book I was reading at the time I signed up to PPrune. Melmoth the Wanderer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I needed a moniker, and the book was sat on my desk. It's worth a read if you get the chance...

[Haraka]

drone
1 Pre-programmed pilotless aircraft, usually employed as an airborne target: either pilotless version of obsolete combat aircraft or smaller aircraft designed as target.Totally different species from RPV's.
2 Loosely and unfortunately used as a synonym for RPV.

Bill Gunston

Jane's Aerospace Dictionary ( Third Edition)
I would suggest that his opinion was that of an informed aviation journalist.
All of which which takes us back to the OP.

Haraka out.

[melmothtw]

Bill Gunston

Jane's Aerospace Dictionary ( Third Edition) I would suggest that his opinion was that of an informed aviation journalist.
All of which which takes us back to the OP.

Haraka out.

Sadly, Bill is no longer with us (I knew him professionaly for a number of years before his passing). I would suggest that maybe the popular vernacular has evolved since Bill wrote that (and will continue to do so), to now include 'drone' as a popular term for UAV.

Edited to add: A quick Google search tells me that Jane's Aerospace Dictionary (Third Edition) was published in 1988!!

an informed aviation journalist

Again with the sly barbs. You just can't help yourself, can you?