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(Message started by: erica on Jan 17^th, 2014, 10:15pm)

Title: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by erica on Jan 17^th, 2014, 10:15pm

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo? ::) :)

Strange but it's true..

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by JiNbOtAk on Apr 20^th, 2014, 9:57pm

The same reason that when you sleep it's called drool, and when you're awake it's called spit. ::)

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by Grimbal on May 3^rd, 2014, 6:23pm

And how come your nose can run and your feet can smell?

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by rloginunix on May 3^rd, 2014, 7:23pm

Probably for the same reason that we park our cars in a driveway and we drive our cars on a parkway ...

or

for the same reason that even though multiple mouses are mice and multiple louses are lice multiple houses aren't hice, multiple spouses aren't spice and multiple blouses aren't blice?

... and multiple radiuses are radii ...

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by rloginunix on May 3^rd, 2014, 7:33pm

And, oh, yes, forgot a couple of my favorites.

... because 1 deer = many deer, 1 sheep = many sheep, 1 moose = many moose ... naturally.

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by rloginunix on May 4^th, 2014, 11:40am

On a serious note I think that etymology is the answer you are looking for.

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by rloginunix on May 4^th, 2014, 6:14pm

Another strange but true, closer to home.

Don't know what they are called elsewhere in the world but the attached are sold in the US as combination locks.

Well. If the order of the digits/numbers/letters is important, "123" and "321" are different codes, shouldn't these be called permutation locks?

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by towr on May 4^th, 2014, 10:19pm

The issue with cargo and shipment is that just because is called cargo doesn't mean it's not also called a shipment and vice versa.

http://dictionary.reference.com

shipment
1. an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.

cargo
1. a. goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle; freight

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by erica on May 30^th, 2014, 11:16pm

Heheh.. Read all the comments. Loved them all :D

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by movie4fun on Aug 18^th, 2014, 6:08pm

because its 'shipment' a single word not ship ment ;D
So you cant possibly relate the two!

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by rmsgrey on Aug 19^th, 2014, 8:26am

on 08/18/14 at 18:08:03, movie4fun wrote:

because its 'shipment' a single word not ship ment ;D
So you cant possibly relate the two!

Just like "waterfall" and "windmill" have nothing to do with falling water, or milling using the wind...

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by Grimbal on Aug 20^th, 2014, 6:15am

Or manslaughter is not mans laughter.

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by wakiza33 on Sep 9^th, 2014, 2:11pm

Phonetically isn't spelled phonetically.

God is a troll.

Title: Re: Lets see who can answer this ?
Post by anglia on Aug 15^th, 2015, 12:50am

shipment is an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo. Whereas cargo is a goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle; freight