Then there's the eternal quest for "good paying jobs" (should be "well-paying jobs") which seems to have been adopted by politicians of all stripes as they pander to the illiterate.
The use of I rather than me in the objective case irks me as well. Your second statement however is incorrect. Loan as a verb is not a "now accepted" thing. The OED dates it back to Middle English (around 1200). It does mark it's use as chiefly US. Lend has a similar etymological history but is in more common modern use. They both come from the same Latin root. So the use of one of the other is primarily an evolving preference.
Furthermore, Shakespeare was not above using a noun as a verb, e.g., "It out-Herods Herod."
As we've ventured far outside aviation here… the loan vs. lend comments reminded me of a different but related word, “hire.” In the U.K., they like to use “hire” as a synonym for “rental”, as in “I’ll get a BMW from the car hire place” or “I hired a car so we can drive to Liverpool.” They seem to use “hire” equally to represent either side of the “hiring” transaction. This usage always grated on my American ears, but obviously it's their language to mess with, they did invent it, after all!
I present to you "al-u-mini-um".
I thought about giving this post a “like”, but I didn’t want to give the wrong impression.
How would you even know that?
I guess his humor was too subtle for you!
Could you repost that please. I had the volume turned down and didn’t catch it.
Queen Elizabeth II used that line in a visit to the U.S. I don't know whether she originated it.
Especially if they really meant "they're".
When they're discussing their radio phraseology over there.
Because on a busy frequency, you will get "Standby" and then later "Cessna 12345 say request."
"Acceptable jargon" is in constant flux. "Any traffic in the area please advise" arose a previous Unicom request for, "What's your active runway?", which then responded with an advisory of traffic in the area. Terms that may have been useful in the past are condemned in the present, often for good reason.
Military uses Tally Ho and No Joy.
We used to deal with a software package called "Lead Tools" which was intended to be pronounced leed. I always called it led tools.
My CFI insisted I use those. He’d correct me if I used “negative contact” or “in sight”
Same here. "Traffic in sight" and "negative contact" are what the Pilot/Controller Glossary specifies. Trouble is, some people say "contact" when they see the traffic, so ATC can mishear "negative contact" as "contact." This happened to me at Oakland once, so ever since then, I give special emphasis to the "negative."
Visual would be more appropriate than Tally. At least per the last time I’d looked at the brevity book a while back (6+ years ago).
"Searching" or "Looking" is not in the lexicon. First, it tells ATC nothing. They assume you will look for traffic they call. All that matters to them is that you have TRAFFIC IN SIGHT. Having them on the "fish finder" or anything else is "NEGATIVE CONTACT." You're expected to avoid the aircraft you have in sight. The rest is spurious.
You are assuming that they are friendly. I don't
So, if you don't see them immediately, you just say nothing? The controller has no idea if you have heard them or not.
Nope, I say negative contact. Clears up the frequency for the next call.
I do look. But if I can't find it in the time it takes them to finish their call, me to key the mike and give my call sign, negative contact is what comes out.
