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> I'm still pissed at all the people who've decided they should call my non-autonomous quadcopters "drones" Apparently we should call them quadpters because it

> I'm still pissed at all the people who've decided they should call my non-autonomous quadcopters "drones" Apparently we should call them quadpters because it's based on helicopter for which the ethymology is not heli + copter, but helico + pter, like in helicoidal and pterodactyl.

taejo 8y ago
Or tetrapter, to stick with Greek roots (though I'm personally fine with heteroradicalism!)
bigiain 8y ago
From now on, I'm shall call them "spinning dinosaurs"! "Hey mister! Is that your drone?" "No kid, it's not a drone, it's a spinning dinosaur..."