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Why in Sci-Fi they always use Marine or Naval terminology and structure instead of Aviation for the spaceship structure, navigation and military ranks? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I don't really know how to structure this question, but yeah, why is always Naval and never Aviation?

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[+] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

"Why do they use" is a question. "Why they use" is an explanation.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like especially in titles space is at a premium so omitting words that aren't actually needed to avoid ambiguity in the given context is fine

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

When the missing word is do, I am unmoved by concerns about space.

[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago

english is a great language with which to get into a habit of saying "according to," or "traditionally," before statements like these.

if "why they use" is understood as a question, then it's functioning as a question. to try to point out a "mistake" in english against some supposed objective or better standard is to fight a classist, sisyphean, and intellectually unrigorous battle against the reality of language in use. spare yourself the frustration.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Downvote all you like, I'm gonna keep correcting people who make this mistake.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I believe you mean, "Even if you, 'down-vote,' my comment, I shall continue to correct people who have made that mistake."

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I meant exactly what I said, and it is grammatically-correct casual English. Unlike 'why in sci-fi they use Navy ranks?' Or any of the hundred other 'how to fix problem?' examples I've seen, over the last decade.

This is a growing error and I am doing the bare minimum to help people stop making it. I'd understand if you find it overly prescriptivist. I'd understand if my phrasing was somehow impolite or unhelpful. But I have nothing kind to say about people mocking the effort.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't you know? Correcting someone's grammar or spelling is ableist and you have to just try to understand the fountain of garbage that people spew or you're literally Hitler.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago

noone likes a grammer nasi