@Asinus@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 11 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-square27arrow-up123
arrow-up123message-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 • 11 days agomessage-square27
minus-square@Goretantath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink13•11 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-square@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilink4•edit-211 days agoI mean it’s not like ships pull up to a star, unless they are spaceships that is.
minus-square@Asinus@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilink3•11 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.
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.
I mean it’s not like ships pull up to a star, unless they are spaceships that is.
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.