>>>"Facility", i.e. "ease" is a weird name for a building, still can't fit that into my head.
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>>It also means an "aptitude" as in Boris has a facility for figuring out complex SQL statements. In a way, a building that is a facility n some way "eases" one's life, I guess. How about the fact that washrooms are called "the facilities"?
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>There are many other things that facilitate some action - tools, money, furniture, appliances. But only the building is a facility :).
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>I know I shouldn't be looking for too much logic in language, but this one just strikes me as an odd one.
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>As a kid, I was banging my head over a postal form, where there were several options and the instruction below said "strike unneeded" ("strike" in the sense of drawing a line over, not punch, not labor related). Well it looked to me it was needed to strike everything but the one you wanted, but then it said it was unneeded.

Here it would say "cross out the non-applicable ..." opr summat like that.

When I was a kid I used to think that all competition entries went to a central sorting place in a town called Random.

"The first correct answer pulled out at random ..."

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>Years later I understood that it meant "strike THE unneeded". Whoever designed the form didn't feel like thinking of ambiguities, and obviously didn't think of "circle one".
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>>>Just like the expression "do a diversion" during the WWII back home came to mean "blow something up"... because it was the preferred method of diverting the enemy's attention from the actual targets, and nobody ever heard any other meaning of the word. The "diverzant" was the usual dynamite-and-fuse guy.
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>>We's call that "a diversionary tactic". I guess your average Yugo, when encountering roadworks (construction in US parlance), and seeing a "Diversion" sign, does a quick U-ey and speeds off in panic?
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>"What steps would you take in such a case?"
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>"Longest I can"