Asinus@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 days 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-square24fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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 · 10 days agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareGoretantath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days 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-squareAsinus@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days 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.
minus-squareSkeezix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoIt can be simply starboard and larboard.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 days agoI mean it’s not like ships pull up to a star, unless they are spaceships that is.
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.
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.
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.