Talk:Lomcevak

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[edit] Name

I am rather confused by the title. I believe the correct name would be Lomcovák (at the very least, that is the only Czech word I can come with), even the article has the name mixed up, but see [1] (BD2412 “moved Lomcovak to Lomcevak: corrrect sp”). Probably the name was misspelled somewhere in the history and the misspelling caught on, but… I’d like to be sure that this is intentional spelling. --Mormegil 18:25, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

moved from Lomcovak

I think the name comes from the Czech verb "lomcovat" which means to shake or to jiggle violently - for example when a baby heaving a tantrum shakes the side of his/her crib. This would make sense since the plane would be undergoing sort of buffet stall in the air and the pilot's head would experience that kind of violent jiggling. Now I think the Moravians which 1) are somewhat fond of drinking and 2) have sometimes a pretty original local dialects certainly could have taken this original meaning and transposed it to mean headache, especially the one after a night of heavy drinking. Most Czechs would translate lomcevak (rather lomcovak) as this jiggling or shaking.

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Note also [2]:

Mezinárodně je rozšířen i novější termín (zřejmě slangového původu) z oblasti sportovního letectví lomcovák (popř . i lomcevák), označující zvláštní figuru, která byla vyvinuta a poprvé předvedena na světových soutěžích československými sportovními letci.

Internationally, a newer term (probably with a slang origin) lomcovák (perhaps even lomcevák) is prevalent, which denotes a specific maneuver conceived and presented for the first time by Czechoslovakian pilots.

Interesting --Mormegil 08:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)