RID where the heck is it?

[Torque]

Well, heck. I figured this thread needed one comment that more than one person could agree on.

A writer friend and I have been enjoying the way language is evolving (or eroding), including the way old sayings and phrases get tweaked. Hone in on something. Picking on high cotton. A pig in a poker. And there's the way voice recognition perverts the written version of what someone said. Lot's of examples from folks here who dictate to their phones.

It's the continuation of the way music lyrics get misunderstood. Instead of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "There's a bad moon on the rise." some folks heard and sang along with, "There's a bathroom on the right." Maybe Iron Butterfly triggered it all with "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" back in 1968. (Google it, youngsters.)

Loved Iron Butterfly in my youth!
For many years growing up I just took it for granted that God was named Harold. I heard it constantly; "Our Father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name..."

 

[eEridani]

Well, heck. I figured this thread needed one comment that more than one person could agree on.

What I tell friends is English is a hard language - especially as a native speaker.

ps: it's Pig in a Poke. Not sure I'm spelling poke right, but as I recall a poke is a small purse people used to wear.

 

[MS Coast]

What I tell friends is English is a hard language - especially as a native speaker.

ps: it's Pig in a Poke. Not sure I'm spelling poke right, but as I recall a poke is a small purse people used to wear.

Those were all examples of twisted phrases. It's home in on something rather than honing in, which is more like polishing. And picking in high cotton, which is easier since you don't have to bend over. I've seen tow the line instead of toe the line, as in not stepping over the start line or out of bounds.

Pokes are sacks. Big ones to put a pig in so the buyer can't inspect it before the sale. Buying a pig in a poke is a bad idea. Small leather pokes were used by prospectors to hold gold dust. In the South, burlap feed and seed bags can be poke sacks, croaker sacks, or gunny sacks. All this is a departure from drones.

 

[sawman]

And the US and Europe has things called Traffic Cams (or similar names); no LEO needs to be there, and the ticket is sent via post. With Remote Identification, the drone self reports illegal flight when broadcasting things like altitude and location if it is indeed over 400' agl or inside restricted airspace.

Cameras provide visual proof which RID doesn't.