On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 11:10, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If we were to use description in a formalized way (A to B, or A to B via > C), where would we put actual free form descriptions ? > 1) I'm suggesting we use A to B via C for the name where that is the actual name of the service. Yes, it looks like a description. The bus company is very unimaginative and lazy for not coming up with a name completely unrelated to the route of the bus. It's still the name. 2) Description is entirely optional. If the name of the thing is also a description of that thing then there is no need for a description. As I mentioned earlier in the thread there's a house near me with the walls painted red and its official name (as registered with the county council) is "Red House" (except it's in Welsh, but that's what Ty Coch means). Putting "Red house" in the description would be superfluous. A few miles away is a working water mill called "The Mill" (actually, "Y Felin," but that means "The Mill"). A lot of names, particularly older names, are descriptions with a definite article, and sometimes the definite article gets dropped - a red house is named "The Red House" and eventually just "Red House." It would be a bad idea to give the name "House" to a house if we cannot identify the name, so the rule not to use descriptions as names makes sense in that particular case. If the house is named "Red House" or "Big House" or whatever then that IS its name even if it looks like a description and the rule doesn't apply. -- Paul
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