Airports/Airspace

If you consider heliports, gliderports, balloonports, seaplane base
etc.. now you have something like 4096 different types of airports.

I'll betcha there are more types of airports than there are airports.

Jose
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by "Peter Duniho" Mar 15, 2006 at 11:43 AM

Jose wrote:
If you consider heliports, gliderports, balloonports, seaplane base
etc.. now you have something like 4096 different types of airports.

I'll betcha there are more types of airports than there are airports.

Jose
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I am sure you are right because I can't imagine a paved seaplane base.

by Jose Mar 15, 2006 at 08:13 PM


Sorry, wrong answer. The dictionary definition of "biannual" allows for

both the "half" and "every two" interpretation.

Then you need a new dictionary. Unlike "flammable" and "inflammable",
the use of "biannual" for "every two years" is incorrect. Perhaps if
enough people persist in mangling the language, it will become accepted
by the general educated populace with that meaning, but until that
happens, it just ain't right.

Jose
(yes, I know of "ain't"'s long history)



Well, the definitions according to the American College Heritage
Dictionary are unambiguous. But, after checking the Rutgers.edu grammar
website (which the AOPA writers really should bookmark, and reference
often), there does seem to exist some confusion:


http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/b.html

Interesting.....

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"Jose" wrote in message
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Sorry, wrong answer. The dictionary definition of "biannual" allows for
both the "half" and "every two" interpretation.

Then you need a new dictionary.

lol...

"If you don't like the answer, blame the reference."

Too bad Jose. You don't get to pick and choose my dictionary based on what
YOU think it ought to read.

[...] Perhaps if enough people persist in mangling the language, it will
become accepted by the general educated populace with that meaning

For better or worse, that's exactly how language evolves. Frankly, I don't
like it any more than you do, but I don't have any control over it, nor do
you.

but until that happens, it just ain't right.

Sadly for you, it has already happened to "biannual". It will eventually
happen to other words dear to me (such as "comprise", which some
dictionaries are already starting to acknowledge as a synonym for
"compose"), but this race has already run, and "biannual" lost.

Pete

Alton Bay in NH. They plow the lake in the winter and land there. I suppose
one could pave it.


"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
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Jose wrote:
If you consider heliports, gliderports, balloonports, seaplane base
etc.. now you have something like 4096 different types of airports.

I'll betcha there are more types of airports than there are airports.

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

I am sure you are right because I can't imagine a paved seaplane base.

For better or worse, that's exactly how language evolves.

Yes, you are right. But there is a time, between when the word is used
one way, and when it is accepted as meaning something else, where such
usage, is just wrong. Sometimes the barbarians can be beaten back,
sometimes not. But the effort must be made, lest all words mean
anything, and nothing.

Jose
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"Jose" wrote in message
om...
[...] Sometimes the barbarians can be beaten back, sometimes not.

The barbarians can NEVER be beaten back. There are way too many of them,
and they didn't pay attention in English class.

In article L9%Rf.4390$Ub.475@trndny07,
"Steve Foley" wrote:

Alton Bay in NH. They plow the lake in the winter and land there. I suppose
one could pave it.

or at least have a prepared surface (e.g., WWII runways constructed from
planking or plates or whatever it was...)

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