>>I use the touchpad--but only on airplanes :-)
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>This one gets me every time... in my language, you are IN an airplane if you're traveling. You get ON a plane only to repair it, or a pull a James Bond like stunt. I just imagined someone on a wing trying to type while the screen keeps flapping down and the mouse dangles wildly.


George Carlin had a great line about that. "Let the daredevils get ON the plane. I'm getting IN the plane."

New Yorkers talk about waiting on line rather than in line. That's another odd phrase IMO.