The plane crashed in a densely populated neighborhood near the airport in Lagos, the nation’s largest city.

Experts fear that more of us are losing our ability to have – or at least are avoiding – the traditional face-to-face conversations that are vital in the workplace and personal relationships.

The cases themselves are anything but funny, but how people are talking about them can be fascinating.

“When a surgeon in an operating room … cuts and cleans and amputates, and the wound bleeds, do we say to him your hands are stained with blood? Or do we thank him for saving the patient?”

Today’s flotilla includes more than three dozen “Dunkirk Little Ships,” private boats that rescued thousands of British soldiers from the beaches of France after the German invasion in 1940.