JohnAnnArbor: "Disembark" is a perfectly good word. Why do they say "deplane"?

Deplane?

Did I miss something? the article explains what they say but does't specify why using those phrases prevents them from having to repeat themselves. personally i farking hate it when they say "im going to go ahead and do xyz" unless they are actually, doing something such as changing my flight or whatever. it just does't make sense to say "im going to go ahead and pull up this file", they could just say "im pulling up your file". To me, adding the extra shiat just means more data to process for the brain. why be so verbose? surely you would have to repeat yourself more often because there is more to miss.


/idiocracy

This does explain the anal probing during my last flight.

Mercutio74: St_Francis_P: This does explain the anal probing during my last flight.

How did you manage to get a seat beside Jerry Sandusky, little boy?

He said he came from Arcturus. How was I to know?

potato_chip_eating_geek: Did I miss something? the article explains what they say but does't specify why using those phrases prevents them from having to repeat themselves. personally i farking hate it when they say "im going to go ahead and do xyz" unless they are actually, doing something such as changing my flight or whatever. it just does't make sense to say "im going to go ahead and pull up this file", they could just say "im pulling up your file". To me, adding the extra shiat just means more data to process for the brain. why be so verbose? surely you would have to repeat yourself more often because there is more to miss.


/idiocracy

It actually works the same way that whispering "Psst..." or shouting "Hey you..." does. It's the audio equivalent of a bullet point marker on a slideshow. It operates as a way to alert the listener that what follows is important and their attention is required.

It can be annoying as hell when the listener already assumes that the speaker is saying something important, I agree. But when speaking to those (apparently a substantial percentage if not an actual majority) who are stumbling through life, barely aware of the events that are going on around them, it can be useful.

Your Silence is Killing Kurds: who cares?

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I'll add this from a previous thread and say we're done:

Begs to become a meme.

The one that bugs me is when they say "we will be airborne momentarily," when they mean "we will be airborne soon."

"Momentarily" means "just for a moment."

F**k you, if you get this plane in the air, you'd better damned well keep it up there for a while!

When I was teaching at a marine life park that rhymes with "Flea Hurled", there was one guy who used to bug the shiat out of me. He always spoke in the stereotypical "tour guide" voice. "This is the Atlantic bottlenose DAAAAAHL-FIN. They live through out the atlantic OOOO-SHEN and throughout several other ranges of HAAABitat." Made me want to throttle him. When I was teaching or giving tours, I just spoke naturally, as though I was talking to a group of friends. I actually got commended for my speaking style.

They talk down to passengers because they hold them (not me, I'll no longer patronize their businesses) in contempt. Airline slang for passengers is "geese".

Representative of the unwashed masses: Fano: JohnAnnArbor: "Disembark" is a perfectly good word. Why do they say "deplane"?

I don't know but fark you, I'm getting IN the plane. Let Evil Kneivel get ON the plane!

And what about pre-boarding, are they boarding before they board?!

aerojockey: RocketRod:


Begs to become a meme.

Exactly, forget talking like aliens, how about looking like aliens.

CSB:
I saw her once when disembarking in Minneapolis. She's about a foot shorter than the Delta video makes her look, and is really, really pretty (in a human way) when she doesn't have that forced grin.

I don't get it. She looks perfectly normal to me