Asinus@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 hours 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-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down120
arrow-up1-8arrow-down1message-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 · 4 hours agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareGoretantath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 hours 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-squareAsinus@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours 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.
minus-squareSkeezix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoIt can be simply starboard and larboard.
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.
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.