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An airport is an air-port. A port via the air. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by someguy3 to c/showerthoughts

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Not actually a shower thought, saw an old document that labeled it air-port. I don't think I would have ever made the connection.

(I've found people can be rude about word breakdowns, but I'm posting it anyway. Be better.)

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[–] niktemadur 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And why isn't a train station called a rail port?
Missed opportunity to keep it all tidily labeled similarly, if you ask me.

[–] someguy3 4 points 5 months ago

Hmm there is rail yard just like ship yard, though I think they're used a little differently.

[–] Plopp 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Train station and bus station. Why isn't it called boat station and plane station?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Because a station is a place you pull up to an leave going the same direction, and a port is a place you enter and then go back out the same way.

Airplanes come down to a port, then go back up.

Boats come into a port, then back out to sea.

Buses come into a station, then go along their way. Same as trains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Buses come from a road and then go back to the same road, so this line of reasoning makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The buses never leave the road. The station is on the road.

When buses pull into spaces, then back out, it’s called a bus port.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I don't know what bus stations you've been to, but every bus station I've been to was something like an airport. Everything else has been a bus stop.

[–] Plopp 1 points 5 months ago

Don't come here with logical arguments! :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Funnily enough in Russian the word for train station is Vauxhall… spelt Russian. People say that Russian engineers studying in London mistook the name of a specific underground station - Vauxhall - as the generic word for station and imported it into their language before anyone realised the mistake.