"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Roger Upole wrote:
>
>>>I wouldn't have figured out that a "car park" was a parking lot. I
>>>might have thought it was a park where you go to look at scenery from
>>>inside your car. Sort of a cross between a normal park and a drive-in
>>>movie
>>
>>
>> Just as another isolated data point, the first time I saw the
>> expression "car park", I went and looked it up. Even
>> though from the context the meaning seemed obvious,
>> I was left with some doubts as to whether it might have
>> some more specific connotations. For instance, it could
>> have referred to a metered lot, or to a parking garage
>> with time tickets, or even some kind of valet parking.
>
> But a car park can be any one of those things, or something else such as an
> unmetered lot.
>
>
>
> --
> Steven.
>
And this is exactly my point. Without already knowing
that it's used as a general term, one doesn't know just
what the expression implies (or doesn't imply).
Roger
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