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To: bitt

This article discusses an ‘unidentified’ UFO. Unless I am out to lunch, UFO stands for ‘unidentified flying object’. How then, can there be an ‘identified’ ‘unidentified flying object’? If it is identified, how can it remain an ‘unidentified’ flying object. Reminds me of how many people say silly things like ‘almost unique’! Something is either ‘unique’, or it is not!

It sounds like remedial English grammar lessons are sorely needed.


22 posted on 12/04/2020 5:49:02 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

...English grammar lessons are sorely needed.
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23 posted on 12/04/2020 5:58:15 PM PST by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Heh, good one. Perhaps it was identified as unidentified.

We had this clunky terminology to deal with when I worked with MUFON.

Not related to the “objects” talked about in this article, but I’m surprised very few people ever entertain the possibility that some of these “UFO”s aren’t ships at all, but lifeforms. Lifeforms that can’t travel through space, and are very long lived and/or exceedingly fast.


24 posted on 12/04/2020 5:59:51 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ghislaine Maxwell lives and Joe Biden is losing.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

They really should have called it an unidentified UFO object.


28 posted on 12/04/2020 6:08:26 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Agreed. Where I teach, we used to use the term “Student Assistance Team,” which was also called “SAT” for short...and which most people then referred to as the SAT Team or SAT Committee.

SMH...


57 posted on 12/05/2020 2:29:48 AM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Reporter or headline writer thinks that UFO is a word and means flying saucer. An identified UFO is one for which we know the model and registration.


67 posted on 12/05/2020 5:22:20 AM PST by arthurus (covfefe joz)
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