On 14/01/19 11:52, Dave Swarthout wrote:
Nope, a mobile home is not the same as an RV or travel_trailer. Have a
look at the illustrations on the Wikipedia page. It is, as the
Wikipedia definition says, a prefabricated structure meant for
permanent living. It has wheels, hence the mobile part of its name but
it's moved very infrequently, sometimes only from the factory to its
location inside of a, here's another American term, trailer park.
Wikipedia says
Used as permanent homes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home>, or for
holiday or temporary accommodation
Note the OR .. so are not just permanent homes?
An aside: As I consider this thread and the problems we're having with
terminology I came to the realization that most countries don't have
such things as we do in the U.S. Some of the motorhomes you see on
American highways are behemoths based on a full-size bus chassis,
powered by big rear-mounted diesel engines. I'd be willing to bet that
no other country has anything even approaching the sheer size of these
things. And they are quite common here. And are they expensive? Yep.
100 to 200K USD and up.
Much much bigger than that. I know of one that is a tractor trailer
(semitrailer in Australian).
Anyway, how best to describe the plethora of such vehicles, in the
U.S. especially where they are so common, in one word? The term
motorhome fits such monsters and works for many other smaller vehicles
like your garden variety Winnebagos and extended van conversions but
cannot describe unpowered trailers or, in British vernacular, caravans.
Where do we go from here?
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:43 AM Warin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 14/01/19 09:07, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
Wow, so much for me naively thinking that caravan was a universal
word! Should know better by now :-)
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 21:58, Paul Allen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
However, there does appear to be a better term. From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorhome
(the bold emphasis is mine):
Motorhomes are part of the much larger associated group of
*mobile homes* which includes
caravans, also known as tourers, and static caravans.
So mobile_home appears to cover it.
Not really, sorry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_home: "A *mobile home* (also
*trailer*, *trailer home*, *house trailer*, *static caravan*,
*residential caravan*) is a prefabricated
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabrication>structure, built in
a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being
transported to site (either by being towed or on a trailer). Used
as permanent homes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home>, or for
holiday or temporary accommodation, they are left often
permanently or semi-permanently in one place"
It would cover those things that slide in and out of utility
vehicles and act as accommodation.
I think the 'mobile home' is an acceptable term to cover the lot.
Why is it unacceptable?
The emphasise on 'permanent' I think is wrong, but there is enough
vagueness to accept that 'mobile' means mobile.
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