"camera-mounted drone"?

[Dan Goncharoff]

But a drone carrying a camera is not, itself, a camera.

DanG


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 11/25/2013 12:39 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > >What is the alternative? I don't know a better way to say what was
> being
> > > >said ("camera-mounted drone").
> > >
> > > "drone-mounted camera".
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> >Are you suggesting I can call a drone with a camera mounted on it
> >a "drone-mounted camera"??
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> Yes.  It's a camera that is drone-mounted.
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> >I don't think that's what you meant, but I don't understand what you would
> >suggest to replace "camera-mounted drone"
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> Because I take "X-mounted Y" to mean "a Y mounted on an
> X".  "Elephant-mounted mahout", not "Mahout-mounted elephant."
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> Joel
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