Pilots use the word "weather" to refer to air turbulence. It's actually an interesting locution since you can have sunny clear skies, rain, sleet, hail, hurricanes typhoons and tornadoes attendant upon global warming. It's as if weather were one of those words like "gay" that has taken on extracurricular meanings. There was a time when "gay" meant happy and it would be interesting to trace the evolution of that meaning. There was a time when weather was at the very least a neutral term. Should it be assumed that pilots have engendered a double entendre or innuendo that's the result of climate change? It will be interesting to see how the meanings of certain other words change over time. Alexander Payne directed "Election" back in 1999. It would be interesting to think about what he would have titled his movie today.
read Joan Baum's review of The Kafka Studies Department, NPR
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