atw: Re: Jargon Alert

Peter Martin wrote:
> 
> A propos of which....     Why do our railways people still use silly 
>  language in announcements such as those when a train "terminates"
> at a given station?   God knows how hard it is for non-English-speaking 
>  tourists to make out some of the live announcements as it is, but even I 
>  pause when I'm told that I have to detrain. (I keep on thinking it means 
>  something like de-skill). Or maybe I misheard something about de train. ...
>  

Reminding me of one of my all-time favorite .sigs:

"If a train station is where a train stops and a
bus station is where a bus stops, why did my boss
give me a workstation?"

-- Janice

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