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Re: Names of things.
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:46:16 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> ... for example Santa Fe Super Chief is named the way
> it is (incorrectly) because of where it came from, and so on.
Incorrectly named because the set is a loco and not a train?
True, but a far more glaring error is the Skull's Eye Schooner!
And of course, the Black Seas Barracuda (or Dark Shark, for that matter) is
not a fish either ;-)
Cheers
Richie
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| (...) Ya, but I was using it an example of a set that has a name that's American and that it would be hard to argue that it should have any other name whatever. (...) Sure... I agree. Not my point though, which is this: What makes Dark Shark the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Just out of curiousity, how do you know what the *original* names are? Or, how do you know that the "seppo" (as you so charmingly call it) names *aren't* the original names? I'd argue that many times, they are... for example all the Star (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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