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They are still shopping centres !!!!!!!
Is this 'pedantic Wednesday' or are you taking the michael too?
The place where there are lots of shops is generally called a shopping centre ... FGS, some people will contradict ANYthing just for the sake of an argument!
What I said was I don't know anyone who would say 'I am going to the shopping centre' .. they would would say.. 'I'm going to The Trafford Centre' .. what they are described as is not always what things are referred to as ... it is just more specific about where you are referring to I guess given most people live in range of a few.
But I agree, they are absolutely NEVER a 'mall'
I'm just going to feed my felis catus is not what is said of an evening you'd say, I'm going to feed the cat.
I'd love to get out more.. sadly I am probably not going out for several days now..
I am never 'childfree' I am occasionally 'beastless' though!LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
Gary Rhodes usued to say 'I'll just add x to 'take it to another level'.
No, you idiot. You've just ruined the dish.
Me too.
Or start a sentence with 'Right'.
Or when they ring you, the first thing they say after you say 'Hello' is 'Listen'. Of course I'm listening, you dimwit - I've got the bloody phone to my ear.
Oh - we've graduated from 'infantile' to '6 year old', have we? :rotfl:
You can post photographs of as many signposts as you wish but it appears that you are the only person (so far) who thinks the word 'train station' is infantile.
One adult may have the train station in mind when they say 'let's meet at the station' but a friend - who is more used to catching the bus than the train could be waiting in vain at the bus station.
That's why an adult may need the difference clarifyting.
Maybe those who live in a city need the type of station to be clarified. Many places just have a railway station and bus stops.
As for trams, rare things! :cool:Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
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What I said was I don't know anyone who would say 'I am going to the shopping centre' .. they would would say.. 'I'm going to The Trafford Centre' ..
Maybe, but it would still be valid to say: "Manchester has a number of shopping centres, including the Trafford Centre and the Arndale Centre"Let's settle this like gentlemen: armed with heavy sticks
On a rotating plate, with spikes like Flash Gordon
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Well, I live in a village and we have a bus station (not a train station though).pollypenny wrote: »Maybe those who live in a city need the type of station to be clarified. Many places just have a railway station and bus stops.
As for trams, rare things! :cool:
Our nearest town has both.
I would never say 'I'll meet you at the station' - unless prior arrangements to travel somewhere by bus or train have been discussed.
So no - not just those who live in a city need the type of station to be clarified.
Incidentally - do you think the term 'train station' is 'infantile'? I notice you use 'railway station'.0 -
Maybe, but it would still be valid to say: "Manchester has a number of shopping centres, including the Trafford Centre and the Arndale Centre"
it would
.. I'm not sure I could envisage that being a sentence used. Pondering on it I would prrobably call them pockets of retail Hell ... lol.. LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
Incidentally - do you think the term 'train station' is 'infantile'? I notice you use 'railway station'.
are they not different things??
I'd think a railway station as a platform along a line whereas a train station a terminus where trains sleep at night.. and the depot where they go for cleaning and repairs.
OH said I'm being weird again lolLB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
It is also shorthand for Metro station, subway station, underground station and Tube station.
All of which are stations on a railway.As for Train station vs. Railway/Railroad station, it is not down to infantilism or anything as interesting as that. Train station is simply newer, coming into common use in the 1960s and increasing since then. Railway station and Train station are roughly even in usage these days. However, if you aggregate railroad and railway variants, they outnumber train station by around 50%.
Yes, I know that.
However, I've been enjoying the ever increasing indignation.0 -
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Maybe you should get out more.......:rotfl:Gloomendoom wrote: »All of which are stations on a railway.
Yes, I know that.
However, I've been enjoying the ever increasing indignation.0 -
Its obviously your choice if you want to swear and use bad language in your own home, how on earth you find it acceptable for one of your own children to use such words when talking to you.I never said 'nice' I said when you think about the actual meaning of the word it is nice... unless you think the female genitals are repugnant.. I kinda like mine.. they serve a purpose.
It just happens that it has been used towards offsprung, PMSL, 5 of my children are adults and are free to use it too so why not.. and they have said it to me and I to my mother.. it's no different to using other rude words .. how is it any worse than calling someone an 'F' word or a 'b' word? .. i'd just type them but they get !!!!
I have no qualms about using any words.. but it depends on the company, I wouldn't deliberately set out to offend someone without cause.. so while I wouldn't use rude words to OH's mum, mine doesn't care and can give as good as she gets, so we do.. OH's mum pretends she doesn't swear.. but usually when I see her it is her house and therefore I like to keep to her rules.. and then she comes to mine We are not a vile scrotey type 'shameless' family, we wouldnt even fit in on Jeremy Kyle.. shocking I know.. in fact quite the opposite.. but if it is good enough for Prince Phil to use, it's good enough for us
It is about knowing when and where and who it is acceptable with and I am good at judging my audience.. ear-wiggers, I couldn't care less about.. but I wouldn't go to a church and start cussing unless my intention was to cause disruption and offence.
And also being an adult I will do pretty much as I please, within the confines of the law of course
Our bus and train station are the same building so going 'to station' is something regularly asked for when getting on the bus or in a taxi.. where are you going?.. station.. specifying which is irrelevant.. but we are the minority being the end of the line in terms of travel.. once you get here you stay or turn around and go back again! .Lost my soulmate so life is empty.
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have -
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