[Ads-l] to swarm

[Joel Berson]

They might have said "mobbed".  If a single flying object can form a mob.

Joel

      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 6:08 PM
 Subject: [ADS-L] to swarm
   
CNN reports that a Russian jet fighter (I mean, "fighter jet") has
"swarmed" an American spy plane, coming to within ten feet before wising up
and going away.

That's right. It "swarmed" it.

This news was on the crawl rather than from an actual human, so maybe they
just need to reprogram their crawlbot for "English language."

In which "swarm" does not equal "buzz."

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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