>>>>>>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' :)
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>>So oldspeak is ungood?
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>:) Your response is the best chuckle I've had in a week. Thanks Mike. Are you still looking for work?

I am due to start a new job tomorrow. The job consists of supporting a FoxPro for Windows 2.6 app and the promised opportunity to work on some of their .NET apps as well, including the port of this one to .NET "once it's stable." Hmmm -- written in such an ancient version and still not stable? Are you getting an image of finely engineered software? Me neither. I can't quite put into words how little enthusiasm I have for this position. FPW?! No OOP, no real GUI (they may as well have called it Windows Lite or Pretend Windows), no decent debugger, limited PEMs, no customizable base classes, etc. etc. etc. Back to GenscrnX, GenmenuX, and other ingenious kludges to work around the limitations of the base product? Dios mio. I don't know if I can stand stepping into that time machine every day even for the chance to work with .NET.

On the other hand, it's an hour and a half drive each way <g>.