Polls are the answer to everything

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1509215]

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[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

clearly there are DEVIANTS among us.

[andrewducker]

Huzzah for deviants!

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

They must be purged. PURGED, I say. Possibly with chocolate ice cream and small amounts of Caramel Wafer

[andrewducker]

I'm clearly not awake yet, I nearly googled "Camel wafer" to see what you were referring to.

In fact, having now done so, I'm shocked to discover that it's not a euphemism for anything.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

you'd be amazed how hard that made me laugh

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

I did have to google 'Caramel Wafer', though now I've done so, I have to say I'm looking forward to the coming purge. Can I fly over for it?

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

That seems to be the appropriate course of affairs. When do you intend to arrive, that preparations may be made?

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

As soon as possible, now that I am aware of their nummy goodness.

Addendum to poll vote: 'Airplane' 99% of the time, 'Aeroplane' when discussing the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

No, these are the BAD sort!

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

I'm British and would write Aircraft, just to confuse matters!

[andrewducker]

Well, naturally speaking I'd write "plane" :->

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly never use airplane, so I'll answer the poll the other way.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

no, you would write 'plane

because that would be grammatically correct. Bloody heathen

[andrewducker]

Grammar can, in my general opinion, go fuck itself.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

normally I would heartilly agree. I was scarred with this particular fact at a young age by an exceptionally obnoxious teacher. It stuck pretty hard.

[andrewducker]

I've generally more of a descriptivist than a prescriptivist when it comes to language, although there are certain things that enrage me.

"Loose" for "Lose" being one of them. Makes my blood boil just thinking about it.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

Oh dear Lord yes. I have major beefs with misuses of effect and affect.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

wow. I physically cannot speak that sentence. How odd.

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

peak and pique is my pet peeve!

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I am a pedant so I purse my lips at 'less' and 'fewer'.

Also at steep learning curves that in fact aren't, and questions not actually begged.

[andrewducker]

Oooh, what's the problem with steep learning curves?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

A learning curve measures ability over time.

So a steep one is actually easy. It's the shallow ones you want to watch out for.

[andrewducker]

Surely it's being expected to climb the steep ones that's hard. You have to increase your ability massively over a short period of time.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

But we talk of a learning curve as being associated with a task, so the graph represents some notional average performance.

[andrewducker]

True. So it should be a steep difficulty curve - where X is ability and Y is difficulty.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I just try to remember to say a hard learning curve, or a slow one. No problem there.

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Likely the only time I would ever have use of the word would be for an exceptionally non-canonical piece of Biggles fanfiction. That being the case, of course, you'd be more likely to see the word 'machine.'

Although, come to think of it, I highly doubt you would, as I don't think you have any particular interest in the latest mile high adventures of Biggles and Ginger. Always thought there was something funny about those two.

[mair_in_grenderich]

Actually I would write plane, but that was not an option. Crashing aeros killed my grandmother, you insensitive clod!

[draconid.livejournal.com]

I've put Aeroplane because I think (and hope) that that's what I'd put. But since it's so unlikely that I'd have to write it I'm not sure. In reality I'd probably just use plane.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

I've answered as "not British", based on growing up in Australia. On the other hand, British parents, British influences, and now I have a British passport. Clearly the poll needed to use checkboxes rather than radio buttons :-)

[andrewducker]

Radio buttons are for the weak!

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

I just write what I say, and I quite clearly put a vowel between "air" and "plane". Perhaps I should write "air-a-plane".

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

I like pleasure spiked with pain and
Music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

Apart from if I meant the movie. Which I think is Airplane! anyway.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Of course, you did bend the question by asking what people would write, rather than what they would say.