Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

Re:Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior h... by KPGv2 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:03AM (#48730917)

Counterpoint: -copter is a perfectly cromulent suffix. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-copter

gyrocopter, helicopter, quadcopter, hexacopter, octocopter, parcelcopter, and—most famously—

roflcopter, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roflcopter#/media/File:Roflco...

They all have their own dictionary entries.

Octocopter makes perfect sense. Everyone understands immediately what it means, and that's the only purpose of language: to convey ideas. It should be clear, which this is, and concise, which this is.

Fidelity to ancient Greek is not, and should not, be a goal for English.

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Re:Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior h... by _kb on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:09AM (#48731553)

Great examples. The English lexicon is continuously embiggened by the adoption and expansion of terms.

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Re:Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior h... by protocolture on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @11:46PM (#48742017)

9/10, missed opportunity for "cromulent terms" at the end there.

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Re:Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior h... by _kb on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @08:08AM (#48745407)

The reference in the parent comment was already suitably frabjous.

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