Talk:1677: Contrails

Aside: worst name ever for university department: Astronomy and Cosmology - it's almost as if they want people to make the association... 141.101.104.20 10:58, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Love the title text, you can choose to laugh or take offence irrespective of where you call home. Which you do says more about you than the text. Toltec (talk) 11:41, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Worth noting that 'contrails' is itself a North Americanism? 108.162.229.111 12:03, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

The final paragraph does not logically follow from the comic or from the explanation. He's hooking different pseudoscience terms on different cultures (astrology on the UK and chemtrails on the US) so the comic doesn't take a stance on which country's educational system is better or more prone to superstitions than the other. 108.162.245.106 15:04, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

I've always called them vapour trails (north west England)

The comic reminded me of the Hungarian Phrasebook sketch from Monty Python - basically someone who enjoys causing confusion for its own sake between speakers of (in this case, slightly) different languages. 108.162.237.175 18:21, 6 May 2016 (UTC)Pat

I grew up (US Midwest then Northwest) calling them "plane tracks" (by extension from "train tracks," I suppose) and later, "jet trails." I don't think I've ever /heard/ (as opposed to read) either "chemtrails" or "contrails," but they're both far outside my normal areas of work/interest, that there never would have been a reason for them to come up or pass by. 108.162.221.98 19:01, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

For difference in vocabulary between British English and American English, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_American_and_British_English JakubNarebski (talk) 17:44, 7 May 2016 (UTC)