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Re: Names of things.
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 11 Oct 2002 02:16:31 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin writes:
> 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.
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> Incorrectly named because the set is a loco and not a train?
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.
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> True, but a far more glaring error is the Skull's Eye Schooner!
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> And of course, the Black Seas Barracuda (or Dark Shark, for that matter) is
> not a fish either ;-)
Sure... I agree. Not my point though, which is this: What makes Dark Shark
the "original" name, or the "correct" name rather than BSB?
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| (...) I was commented on why/how it was incorrectly named... not about where it came from. (...) I don't know. That wasn't my point though, which is on this: on the basis that the Santa Fe Super Chief is incorrectly named, so are the Skull's Eye (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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