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MUSCOVITE Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
deltaplane = hang-glider
Hi,
(1) Do English speakers ever use "deltaplane" for "hang-glider"?
(2) If you hear "a delta plane", you will probably think of a Delta Airlines plane first? Is my guess correct?
Thank you
mus-te
(1) Do English speakers ever use "deltaplane" for "hang-glider"?
(2) If you hear "a delta plane", you will probably think of a Delta Airlines plane first? Is my guess correct?
Thank you
mus-te
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(1) I would say only afficionados of the activity would know the word. I'd never heard it before. (2) Yes.
- (1) I would say only afficionados of the activity would know the word.
- I'd never heard it before.
- (2) Yes.
- Rover
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(1) I would say only afficionados of the activity would know the word. I'd never heard it before.
(2) Yes.
Rover
(2) Yes.
Rover
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Deltaplane is the French word for hang gliding and the hang glider itself, a trade name. I've never seen it in English, not that I would, being of a rather non-risk-taking bent these days. Still, I doubt that many English speakers would know what you meant. If I heard you say "a delta plane", I'd think you meant delta-winged, like a MiG-21 or a Mirage.
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enoonI've never seen it in EnglishCuriously, the very first line in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_gliding is as follows:
Hang gliding is an air sp
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MUSCOVITECuriously, the very first line in link is as follows:Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and unmotorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider (also known as Delta plane or Deltaplane).Wikipedia is a cesspool. That parenthetical was probably inserted by a French Canadian separatist who has browbeaten the rest of them i
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In the US the terms "deltaplane" and "deltawing" are not used in the sense of "hang-glider." "Hang-gliding" seems to have greatly diminished in popularity. I would go so far as to say no one does it anymore. Other types of gliding sports - like paragliding, parasailing, ciffjumping, cliffflying, and wingsuitflying - have eclipsed it.
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