Microspeak: radar

re: Microspeak: radar

xpclient — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:54:03 GMT

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re: Microspeak: radar

Thomas — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:39:12 GMT

If you are stack ranked it is of utmost importance to be on radar, isn't it?

re: Microspeak: radar

DontReadThisMum — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:46:16 GMT

@Gabe: we just roll joints in my country.

re: Microspeak: radar

alegr1 — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:50:02 GMT

[It's terms in use]

I can't believe such a grammar nazi have just misused "it's" instead of "its".

[Huh? I meant "it's" as in "it [Microspeak] is". -Raymond]

re: Microspeak: radar

Skyborne — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:36:16 GMT

@Yildo: IME, we Americans don't ever bother with rolled Rs. Even my Spanish teacher would let us skip rolling our RRs if we pronounced the rest of the word correctly. (Although he _did_ strongly prefer Spanish pronunciation over Latin American, and likewise insisted we know 2nd-person plurals.)

Alternate hypothesis, we all just ruined your joke :-(

re: Microspeak: radar

Thomas Winwood — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:20:39 GMT

Gabe: it's not a feature of most English dialects, but historically a flapped allophone was a feature of Received Pronunciation between two vowels (e.g. "married").

I believe Yildo was mistakenly using "rolled R" to mean a doubled R glyph rather than a trill or a flap.

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Gabe — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:49:59 GMT

Since when do native English speakers roll their R's? I can't think of any English word that requires it.

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Brian_EE — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:58:02 GMT

@Raymond: Is this something that is still in popular use? This seems to me to be a term that fell out of management use about 5-6 years ago, at least in the area of the country where I work.

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Ken Hagan — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:51:12 GMT

@Yildo: English has no concept of a word needing to be pronounced in a certain way. If you are bad at rolling your Rs, you don't bother rolling them. It doesn't make your speech any less comprehensible.

re: Microspeak: radar

Brian_EE — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:47:40 GMT

@Martin: I didn't mean radar in the strict "bounced radio waves" sense. You are correct that the "radar screen" controllers use include plane-originated position (usually from GPS). "Falling off the radar" still means disappearing from the screen.

And not to stray much farther from Ray's intended colloquial usage, there are rules in place for the declaration of INCERFA, ALERFA, and DETRESFA that weren't followed in the AF447 accident. While that was not a survivable water collision, there have been other water landings where a timely raising of alerts could save lives.