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Re: Autoroute!=Towing, right?
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Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:45:29 GMT
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"Pedro Silva" <el_gordo@netc.pt> writes:
> In lugnet.db.brictionary, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > While we are considering a change, I'd actually like to stump for autobahn
> > rather than autoroute. Although it's a German word, it's almost universally
> > understood to mean freeway (or interstate, or limited access dual
> > carriageway, or motorway, or autostrada, or whatever), no matter the
> > language. Thus it's potentially superior to autoroute, which I had never
> > heard of before, and I suspect most american speakers haven't.
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> > I submit it's the most universal word for this concept the planet has. Even
> > if it isn't english.
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> I disagree, outside of Central Europe the word is not much known; the French
> alternative is more common in the ROTW.
> Besides, the French word is much more recogniseable for speakers of other
> languages. "Bahn" is not at all clear outside of the German speaking
> nations, it's too "unsimilar" to any other word with the same meaning. OTOH,
> "route" has roughly the same meaning both in French and English, apart from
> being easily understood in other languages.
I think that most Americans would know immediately what "autobahn"
means. But I can't speak for people anywhere else. In the US, the
autobahns are infamous for their lack of a speed limit. That makes
most American drivers very jealous. (Of course, many do have a speed
limit, but that's not widely known here.)
Note that "freeway" is not unversally used in the US, though I would
say it is unversally recognized.
How about a different approach - "Overpass Logo"? Is the word
"overpass" used worldwide? (If not, it means a bridge that carries a
road over a freeway/autoroute/autobahn/whatever).
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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Verbing weirds language. --Calvin
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| (...) I just ran a search on google, and it gave me a new word which I think can be of universal understanding: Expressway! Here's the link: (URL) note that the background of the sign is usually blue, not green - AFAIK, green backgrounds are only (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| (...) I disagree, outside of Central Europe the word is not much known; the French alternative is more common in the ROTW. Besides, the French word is much more recogniseable for speakers of other languages. "Bahn" is not at all clear outside of the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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