Just to keep things straight, let me summarize what I have so far. I sort
of decided to go with the British colloquial term "scrapyard" as a place,
usually a large open area, where old cars are kept to be sold for spare
parts. In America the common term, and the one I'm familiar with, is
junkyard.
The usual arrangement is that reasonably-intact vehicles are kept as a
parts source for some period of time, then whatever is left is
eventually sold to another facility that handles recycling of bulk scrap
metal. Badly damaged vehicles may go immediately to the latter
facility. Back in the 1
In the parts of the US where I have lived (Midwest, West) these would be
called "Auto Salvage" if they mainly dealt with vehicles, although
"junkyard" is used colloquially. However, to be consistent, we should use
the British English term to be consistent.
Mike
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Ph
On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 12:22 -0500, EthnicFood IsGreat wrote:
> >
> I thought scrapyards and junkyards were two different entities. This
> is how I think of them.
>
> Scrapyards are places whose primary purpose is to buy items that are
> no longer wanted (typically metal objects) and then sell th
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Colin Smale wrote:
> Far better to use longer, more descriptive words/phrases which are less
> likely to lead to major differences in interpretation across the entire
> world, English-speaking and otherwise. We shouldn't be wasting energy
> arguing about whether to
As always, these linguistic preferences color every discussion. I use the word
junkyard as do most Americans but I settled on scrapyard as a reasonable
compromise but YMMV. these conversations tend to go round and round and I am
satisfied with what I have.
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What is your linguistic frame of reference?
In the UK, the word "junkyard" is not used often and I would go to a
"scrapyard" (or even more likely a "breakers [yard]") for a "new" window
for my old car.
Far better to use longer, more descriptive words/phrases which are less
likely to lead to majo
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:12:23 +0700
> From: Dave Swarthout
> To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
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> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Tagging scrap yards, junkyards
>
> A waste transfer station is a different operation from this one, which is a
> place to store used parts for the l
