Aircraft,plane,aeroplane,bird,old crate etc?

[kevmusic]

Damn! - knew I'd come unstuck. You're all right in abhoring 'plane'. I used it for brevity in a long post elsewhere yesterday (is that what prompted you, Lister? ) but dislike it myself. C'est la vie.

Kev

[Lister Noble]

Kevmusic,no I posted it because I have tended to use plane to date, and am afraid I might be severely catisgated by the airborne masses!
Telphone='phone.Aeroplane='plane
Do you play music,if so what sort?
Lister

[kevmusic]

Ok, it's a bit off topic, but it's your call, so here goes: I play & teach classical, as it's what I was trained in but I've been a jazz buff most of my life & I play as much of it on gigs as I possibly can.

A lot of musicians fly - interesting correla... corellat...bugger it - interesting mix. Idea for a new thread?

And do you play/enjoy music, Lister?

Kev

[J.A.F.O.]

Lister

For some of us:

Telephone = Telephone
Aeroplane = Aeroplane
Mobile Telephone = Mobile Telephone
Television = Television
Radio = Wireless
Wicked Water World = Public Baths

You see I'm working on developing a sort of befuddled High Court judge persona, a "Who is this Gazza Gascoigne?" kind of image and I'm getting quite good at it.

This weeks favourites are:

frowning at the word "texted" and ostentatiosly flipping through my pocket dictionary before questioning whether it's a verb

and saying "I pod, I pod, no, I'm frightfully sorry, you did what?" Whenever anybody talks about their latest mobile music thingy.

I know it's pointless and pathetic but we all need a hobby.

I've hated the word plane when referring to a gentleman's aerial conveyance since I was a boy of fourteen but the high court judge thing is a little more recent. I'm planning to be hideously behind the times until I'm 93, at which point I'll get frighteningly hip and trendy.

[funfly]

I can get vexed by people spelling 'Plain Sailing'
It's Plane Sailing of course - it's what boats do when they are going well (or so I'm told)

[TwoDeadDogs]

hi all
Some old ex-colleagues referred to their helicopters as "Machines" and anyone calling them "choppers" was regarded as beyond naff.Similarly, the busdrivers in Dublin insist on referring to their vehicles as "cars" and woe betide anyone who calls them buses.Go figure....I have heard, quite a few times, airline pilots of my acquaintance, do anything but refer to their Boeing or Airbus by it's actual name.Some of them refer to the 320 as the Minibus and the 330 as the Big Bus.Maybe pilots are frustrated bus drivers and bus drivers are frustrated 'Bus drivers.....
regards
TDD

[Lister Noble]

Originally Posted by kevmusic

Ok, it's a bit off topic, but it's your call, so here goes: I play & teach classical, as it's what I was trained in but I've been a jazz buff most of my life & I play as much of it on gigs as I possibly can.

A lot of musicians fly - interesting correla... corellat...bugger it - interesting mix. Idea for a new thread?

And do you play/enjoy music, Lister?

Kev

Kev,played bass guitar in rock/blues band in early sixties,then didn't see any of the band for 40 odd years,they contacted me early this year,we have reformed and will do a few gigs each year.
We are playing here in south Norfolk next weekend but minus the keyboard player,we are using midi files or something like that to replace him but obviously not the same as a real musician
You can't help out there can you?
.Lister

[Nimbus265]

I've tried to strum my Fender in the cockpit, but I can never seem to close the canopy as the end sticks out!

[Mike Cross]

I can get vexed by people spelling 'Plain Sailing'

Ahem...... "Plain Sail" means you are using what in racing is referred to as "white sails" i.e. you are sailing without a spinnaker. The order "make all plain sail" would have meant "put up every sail that can be flown on all points of sailing" i.e. exclude things that can only be flown with the wind abaft the beam, such as spinnakers. Spinnakers are fiiddly things to use but great fun and provide additional power downwind.

The expression "it was plain sailing" therefore means it was simple and straightforward.

Being "on the plane" or "planing" is something else altogether. A boat moving through the water creates a bow wave and of course a wave creates a trough. As speed increases the bow wave lengthens. When the speed is such that the trough is under the stern it takes a tremendous amount of additional power to get any addiitonal speed. If you can achieve that power the boat starts to move up the wave and is planing. It will accelerate rapidly, as anyone who has driven a planing powerboat can testify.

[Lister Noble]

Originally Posted by Nimbus265

I've tried to strum my Fender in the cockpit, but I can never seem to close the canopy as the end sticks out!

No trouble at all in the Tiger Moth!
Lister

[AfricanEagle]

In Italian it is "aereo" or "velivolo"

Most times I use aeroplane or aircraft when speaking English, but I do like "magnificent flying machine".

Oh, nearly forgot the best: "Ndeke" meaning bird in swahili.

[SKYYACHT]

I make no apologies - I can't abide the Americanism of "Airplane". It is an aeroplane..... like wise "Airfoil" is in fact an "Aerofoil".

At the end of the day - who really cares? As long as I can get in, start up, and drill some holes in the sky after work, what does it matter.

I understand that Douglas Bader hated the expression 'plane.....

Thats it - its a nice day, I have no aeroplane available, so I am going to pull my motorbike out of the garage, and go do some truly lowlevel flying.....

[kevmusic]

Lister, you have a PM!!

[360BakTrak]

I'm not a big fan of 'plane', but as my 19 month old son can say 'plane' and not any other derivative as yet I tolerate (encourage) it much to the disgust of my better half! As soon as his language skills improve, we'll be working on a more appropriate word for said heavier-than-air machine. Unfortunately he can already say the word 'horse', much to my disgust and my better half's delight!

[J.A.F.O.]

Ndeke I like.

Better than paraffin parrot which I've heard before.

Jazz and pointless indignation, got to be the best thread of the year.

[femaleWannabe]

I call it a "plane" because "aircraft" sounds too much like I actually know what I'm talking about