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They’re called some variant of “accident” in many languages. It’s the English speakers that use “crash” that are the unusual ones.
by dontlaugh 3y ago
They’re called some variant of “accident” in many languages. It’s the English speakers that use “crash” that are the unusual ones.
- verve_rat 3y agoEnglish speakers? Or American English speakers? Here in NZ car accident is much more natural to say than car crash. Although even that has subtleties. "I got in to a car accident" would be the normal turn of phrase, but if remove the "car" and the "I" then crash becomes more likely: "There was a crash on State Highway 1".
- dontlaugh 3y agoThat’s what I mean, the subset of English speakers that are unusual are the US ones, it seems.