wednesday april 2

today i was writing up a blog post in which i was going to include some fictional air-traffic-controller lingo when i realized that i have no idea what air traffic controllers sound like. do they speak conversationally? do they use the nato alphabet? are there certain short-hand phrases they might use a lot? i couldn't even construct a single plausible sentence that might come out of an air traffic controller's mouth.

ultimately, i decided to consult youtube, and found a video called "some funny air traffic control conversations." using this video, i grabbed the first reasonable-sounding sentence i found and appropriated it for my blog post. afterward, however, i had a nagging doubt that the sentence i'd randomly grabbed thinking it was "normal" was actually an example of some funny air traffic controller humour and i'd just never realize it.