Asinus@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agoAnnouncements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits.message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down129
arrow-up1-6arrow-down1message-squareAnnouncements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits.Asinus@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareGoretantath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 day agoYou don’t pull up to a port in a train, you pull up to a station. Stationboard doesnt work as well and wont be widely known.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-219 hours agoI mean it’s not like ships pull up to a star, unless they are spaceships that is.
minus-squareSkeezix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoIt can be simply starboard and larboard.
minus-squareAsinus@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoTrue. That’s a flaw with the english words. Yet the exit would always be on the stationboard side (left or right). So you would never know which side of the train to exit.
You don’t pull up to a port in a train, you pull up to a station. Stationboard doesnt work as well and wont be widely known.
I mean it’s not like ships pull up to a star, unless they are spaceships that is.
It can be simply starboard and larboard.
True. That’s a flaw with the english words.
Yet the exit would always be on the stationboard side (left or right). So you would never know which side of the train to exit.