• sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    How am I supposed to just stop using this word?? How else is the plane supposed to tell me to put thrust at idle during landing? This is ridiculous.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOP
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      5 months ago

      no hate to you but i do hate that this is one of the default responses the internet has chosen when discussing this language (twice now in this thread)

      i guess it’s like a growing pains thing, but it strikes me as very middle schooler, kind of like bringing up that one word that means unwilling to share with others.

      one is a noun/adjective, the other is a verb. entirely different words that simply have the same Latin root. one is used in a professional context in an industry nearly none of us are familiar with, the other i come across as a derogatory on this site pretty much hourly. please let’s grow up a bit about this.

      (again no hate to you specifically commenter, it was a funny joke and i just want to call out the broader trend)