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To be fair, the greatest aviation disaster of all time was caused by a mutual misunderstanding from English's complexity and diversity, causing two 747s to beli
by monocasa 4y ago
To be fair, the greatest aviation disaster of all time was caused by a mutual misunderstanding from English's complexity and diversity, causing two 747s to believe they both had right of way on an air strip and then they crashed into each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
- vikingerik 4y agoThis is true, but the counterpoint is that we'll never know the converse - we'll never know how many accidents didn't happen thanks to using a single language universally.
- monocasa 4y agoI guess the point I'm making isn't against using a single language, but that English isn't a great choice for that language since it's not simple nor standardized. Aviation's lesson from this was basically to invent their own dialect, that unfortunately isn't general purpose enough to be used much outside of aviation.
- fsckboy 4y ago> To be fair you're not being fair, though. A common language was chosen for aviation, and nothing in that article suggests that a different language choice would have been better. In this case you had Dutch speakers communicating with Spanish speakers. English does offer a blend between romance and germanic languages (which of course could lead to "false friends", but no language will be perfect)