Subject:
|
Re: Names of things.
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.loc.au
|
Date:
|
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 03:15:37 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1360 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
I was commented on why/how it was incorrectly named... not about where it
came from.
>
> >
> > 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 ;-)
>
> Sure... I agree. Not my point though, which is this: What makes Dark Shark
> the "original" name, or the "correct" name rather than BSB?
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 Schooner, Black
Seas Barracuda and Dark Shark. And far easier to spot (well, maybe not the
schooner, but certainly the two fish names).
Cheers
Richie
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Names of things.
|
| (...) Well sure. I agree! But, see, I'm not arguing with *you*!!! I'm disputing the assertion that BSB is the "wrong" name but Dark Shark is the "right" name which was made upthread. I see no prima facie basis for that assertion, and was asking for (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Names of things.
|
| (...) 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)
|
61 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
