Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:07:55 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: <20250227080310.0000604d@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:07:56 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2b7ed091c89f64c79b78af56aa5ae3d2"; logging-data="2264536"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Su7FK0QhJ+XiZIz2KhXRbi5pdSbbAgS0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:M645+TIeRhglIKYJ/l/ciIu5oho= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB On 11/03/2025 18:27, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2025-03-11, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 10/03/2025 21:02, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:10:41 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/03/2025 05:09, rbowman wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 09 Mar 2025 21:56:33 -0400, Rich Alderson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The original Tom Swift books date to before Curtiss, so that Tom >>>>>> Swift's airplane (or was it still aeroplane?) used wing warping. >>>>> >>>>> Probably. My brother went to college to become an AE when he got back >>>>> from WWII and always said 'aeroplane'. I suppose it was consistent as >>>>> he spent his career in the aerospace industry. >>>> >>>> Aeroplane was the original spelling >>>> >>>> Americans couldn't cope with the diphthong though. >>> >>> Unless Brits say the word very strangely, which is entirely possible, the >>> AE has neither the long e (algae) or long i (alumnae) value. 'Air' and >>> 'Aer' are pronounced the same. >> >> By Americns. >> >>> The question is it really needs to be >>> turned into a three syllable word with the addition of 'o'. >>> >> No, the question is why Americans who are soi find of inventing >> polysyllabic words like 'burglarize' or 'copacetic;' couldn't cope with >> three syllables. > > "'Orientate' is an example of the trend toward polysyllabificationizing." > >> Its probably because they didn't invent the word. > > Ah, the NIH syndrome. > >> Aeroplane: late 19th century: from French aéroplane, from aéro- ‘air’ + >> Greek -planos ‘wandering’. > > I've alwaqys thought of "plane" in the sense of a boat planing, > although I've heard there are differences. > I dont actually believe in that planos shit. In French plane is, as in English, a flat surface. Plane: early 17th century: from Latin planum ‘flat surface’, neuter of the adjective planus ‘plain’. Hence Biplanes and Monoplanes and SesquiPlanes That's what comes in trusting Google AI. -- Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. – Will Durant