9 Jul
2017
9 Jul
'17
1:41 p.m.
On Jul 8, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Jeremy Silver <jp.silver@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
... We got a new word not too long ago, IIRC from the Air and Space Museum app: 'al v float (in/on air)
That would seem to be a perfect substitute for the word "hover", I would think.
loQ jIQoch. I get the impression that {'al} is not right for powered flight like a helicopter or hummingbird. I would use it for a hot-air or helium balloon, a blimp, or a dirigible. On the other hand, a hovercraft doesn't actually hover. It floats *on* a partially-contained volume of pressurized air, but not *in* air as I understand {'al} to mean. -- ghunchu'wI'