Asinus@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months 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-square12fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down121
arrow-up1-10arrow-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 · 5 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareGoretantath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 months 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-squareSkeezix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoIt can be simply starboard and larboard.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-25 months agoI mean it’s not like ships pull up to a star, unless they are spaceships that is.
minus-squareAsinus@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·5 months 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.
It can be simply starboard and larboard.
I mean it’s not like ships pull up to a star, unless they are spaceships that is.
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.