Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw
by mikeash on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:14PM
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Same reason my 550lb glider and a 100-ton B-52 are both "airplanes." It's a general word that encompasses a lot.
The problem isn't so much the use of the word "drones" but the lack of any further qualifiers on it. Sometimes it's evident from context (an article about military drone strikes isn't talking about a 2lb quadcopter, for example) but sometimes it's not, and I think writers need to be a little more careful with it.
The problem isn't so much the use of the word "drones" but the lack of any further qualifiers on it. Sometimes it's evident from context (an article about military drone strikes isn't talking about a 2lb quadcopter, for example) but sometimes it's not, and I think writers need to be a little more careful with it.