[Ads-l] aircrafts

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Spacecrafts" are like aircrafts, just from space:

>From the conservative British "Telegraph" via Yahoo (
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ufos-made-non-human-materials-060000892.html ):

“Non-human spacecrafts” and the bodies of “pilots” have been recovered by
the US government for decades, a former intelligence officer has claimed.

JL

“Non-human spacecrafts” and the bodies of “pilots” have been recovered by
the US government for decades, a former intelligence officer has claimed.

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 11:34 AM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> AS IF we need...?
> Some say Apocalypse already happened.
> Oh, what's the right emoji?
>
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> Subject: Re: aircrafts
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> Like we need another Sign of the Apocalypse.
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> The book. _Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War_ appears to have been retitled
> _Aircrafts of the Spanish Civil War_.
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> JL
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> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:57 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Surely this neo-plural has been mentioned here.
> >
> > But here is an ex. from a scholarly publication:
> >
> > 2012 Elisabeth Bronfen _Specters of War_ (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
> > U.P.) 121: The editing includes close-up shots of paratroopers jumping
> from
> > their aircrafts.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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