Re: New Katoomba Aerial Ropeway

["David Bennetts" <davibenn@ozemail.com.au>]

"Mathew Quaid" <quaidy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What an incredibly daggy name........ aerial ropeway!
>
True, but what else do you call it?  There is no suitable word in the
English language - the French call them a teleferique.
Some call them cable cars, but they could then be confused with the San
Francisco variety.  It's not a gondola, the term sometimes applied to the
small enclosed cars found in multiple on a rope, used by Americans to denote
an open freight or passenger railroad car, and in Italy for the enormously
expensive form of canal transport used in Venice.  In my books it's not an
aerial tramway, which requires rails just as a railway would.  It runs on a
wire rope, so hence it's a ropeway.

And as for the name Sceniscender, what sort of Manglish is that?

regards

David Bennetts