alex wrote:
eggheadjr wrote:
Yah - I have my own full version of the Englsih language, a much more logical version.
Only in the English language do you:
"Park your car in the driveway"
and
"Drive your car on the parkway"
People around me seem to have gotten used to the way I speak but I still do get a few smiles from others when I do.
Actually, a driveway is a private road you drive on to get from the public street to a private residence. Generally you would park in a parking spot at the end of a driveway, not on the part people need to drive on to get to the parking spots. You park
in a parking space because it is an enclosed space. You drive
on a road because it is not.
A parkway refers to a highway that's actually a park on the sides of the road. There are generally places to park on the side of a parkway for scenic overlooks and things like that.
So I think those are actually perfectly logical statements.
Hmmm... makes sense when you explain it that way.
I think the root of the contradiction comes from the fact that the word "park" means two very different things:
1) noun - a nice, expansive green space with lawns and trees.
2) verb - to bring your vehicle to a halt and shutting it down.
Far too many words have more than one meaning, often very different meanings depending on context.
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