azdood85 t1_iu2vhwa wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:35 AM

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No airport in WA state has tarmac. Its usually asphalt, concrete or similar.

[deleted] t1_iu2yrmw wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:05 AM

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azdood85 t1_iu34mm2 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:06 AM

The media and people who dont know better refer to it as the tarmac. But sure, lets continue to lower our standards its not like we are going into space or anything.

MightyWhiteSoddomite t1_iu35x5t wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:21 AM

I'm sitting on my toilet bro.

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ryclarky t1_iu4cygk wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:42 PM

This is very common in language often words get taken over by society to mean other than what was the original intent of the coiner.

Take "meme" for instance. Dawkins originally intended this to mean any idea that left an individual's mind and he described how ideas were comparable to genes in as far as how they died or thrived within the memetic pool of the society within which they exist.

Now it means crappy images/gifs.

As an aviation and airport runway materials sciences layman tarmac to me "means" runway. Society may have usurped it from its original meaning, but it is what is is now.

sirbruce t1_iu2zgck wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:12 AM

These days, tarmac is a generic term that refers to the apron (and sometimes paved taxiways and runways), not the specific substance (Tarmacadam) sometimes used in the past for making them.