Re: New Katoomba Aerial Ropeway

[" Ian" <iansmith@optusnet.com.au>]

"David Bennetts" <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Mathew Quaid" <quaidy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > What an incredibly daggy name........ aerial ropeway!
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> 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.
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> And as for the name Sceniscender, what sort of Manglish is that?
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> regards
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> David Bennet
How about ' Cableway '?  Has a ring to it.

Ian S
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