"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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Because we pilots insist on speaking a secret language that uses
everyday
words like "stall" to mean something completely different from what the
other 99.8% of the population means by the word. If we want to be
understood, why don't we just speak English?

My English dictionary includes the definition "a condition in which an
aircraft or airfoil experiences an interruption of airflow resulting in
loss
of lift and a tendency to drop" for "stall".

True, it's a recognized technical meaning. But it's still obscure and
confusing--especially since nothing in the dictionary lets anyone know that
the more common meaning (for an engine to stop inadvertently) is never used
by pilots with regard to an airplane's engine.

--Gary