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to your point, when my Aussie friends first mentioned a "car park" to my north american born self, i wondered _momentarily_ what that was, then realized it's so
by jjtheblunt 5mo ago
to your point, when my Aussie friends first mentioned a "car park" to my north american born self, i wondered _momentarily_ what that was, then realized it's sort of a fun name for what i would call a parking lot.
- nl 5mo agoI've never thought of it as a fun term before. We use "park" as "I will park the car" not park as in "amusement park"
- BobbyTables2 5mo agoWhy isn’t the “pantry” called the “food store”?
- justinclift 5mo agoDoes your pantry have a cashier and let you buy stuff there? Because a food store sounds like it does.
- jjtheblunt 5mo agoyeah but syntactically "car park" gets used like a noun phrase, not verb phrase, which was (to your point really) what had me think "huh?" momentarily.