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- usnews@lemy.lol
Stephanie Cosme, 32, was killed last year when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an aircraft in California
A US air force civilian contractor had become disoriented recording data at an airport in California last year when she walked into a jet’s rotating propeller and was killed, officials said on Friday.
In a statement outlining the findings of a report into the contractor’s death, the air force materiel command said that 32-year-old Stephanie Cosme was mortally injured on 7 September when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an MQ-9A that was parked at Gray Butte airfield.
“Disorientated” gets me. Why not save a few letters and use “disoriented”? You don’t orientate yourself to your environment, you orient yourself.
Disoriented is the US version; disorientated is the British version.
Still doesn’t make sense to me. There’s no need for the “tate”. She was disoriented, not properly oriented. Do you say “orientate” for the verb, or “orient”?
There are many occasions when speaking another language (yes American English is a different language to British English imo) where you just have to say, “that’s how it is, it doesn’t make sense, but there we go”. The English took the word from the french désorienté, which means to turn away from the orient.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/orient-or-orientate-is-it-a-real-word
Yeah, I take issue with all of these, including commentator, despite it being commonly used. Just say commenter. They’re commenting. I don’t care for all these extra taters.
Commentator is a better fit for grammar in general speech IMO.
On Tuesday John Doe, a commentator for the local….
On Tuesday John Doe, a commenter for the local…
Commenter sounds like someone made a comment as opposed to commentator which sounds like a job title. At least to me.
Fair enough, you make a point with that. It serves a function there, but I still contend the tate in orientate is superfluous.
Irregardless is just straight up incorrect though, it means regardful
Correct - its a double negative. Similar to “inflammable” which should mean “not flammable”, but doesn’t.
IIRC, “irregardless” was added to more US dictionaries in the late 20th century. I had a coworker in the early 90s who would become viscerally angry when others would use it…so the rest of us would use it often.
Never thought about that. People frequently say orientate at my work (I am a stenographer) and it bothers me to no end, because it takes me longer to write orientate versus orient. But now it makes sense, British language.
What is your orient vs what is your orientation?
Orient is weird to me in most circumstances. Also reminiscent of referring to Asia as “the Orient” aka the orient express.
Also: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/orient-or-orientate-is-it-a-real-word
Btw, I don’t hear people say “orient” except as a verb, but I do sometimes hear “oriention” used the same way as “orientation.” Orientation is more common tho ¯\(°_o)/¯
Did George W Bush write this report? That sounds like a a made up word for when you can’t remember the actual word.
My favorite by Trump:
Covfefe
They’re padding the report just like someone writing a paper on a subject they don’t understand.
They know it was their fault for not training her properly, but as typical they try to deflect blame to anyone else.
It’s pretty well understood that financial reports of public companies that aren’t trying to hide something are easier to read than ones from companies that are trying to hide something. I think this is another example of that concept.
Yeah, that’s why we call them Orientals!