freediver wrote Today at 7:47am:
Quote:Well obviously a girder which is wide enough for a train that has wheels running on both edges to then continue running on two distinct rails is not a monorail
Every monorail on earth fits that definition. It is entirely arbitrary. It is a monorail, by definition, if it does run on one rail, not if it is impossible for someone on the internet to imagine splitting the rail into two.
It seems like with every single post, you change your definition of what is a monorail. Yet you also claim to understand the technical details.
I do understand the technical detail.
I also understand English.
A girder is not a rail, so all the trains that run on girders are not running on a rail, monorails run on a single rail.
Advertising and salesmanship call girders rails and the unthinking sheep follow suit.
A proper description would be ‘’Monogirders’’ but that doesn’t sound as catchy.
How does this sound,
‘’The Australian pioneers built miles of post and girder fences’’,
Sound stupid?
Rails and girders are two different things . . . . look in a dictionary.
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