>>>>Neither is (air)plane or (passenger) train, yet we're instructed to deplane and detrain.
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>>>Of course, "train" is a verb, just having no relationship that I can see to the noun. Wait, now I see it. When you "train" something, you teach it to follow a particular path, kind of like the one the train has to follow.
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>>>Tamar
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>>That's why i put the (passenger) in, to show that the noun "train" is being used as part of the verb. Sure I can see that conceptual link. So to detrain should be to forget everything you learnt.
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>>Oh, and deplane is to make the surface of the wood rough again.
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>You folks are beginning to sound as if you are participating in 1984's 'new speak' :)
So oldspeak is ungood?
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