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  • What confuses me is, although cable tram is perfectly fine, that in my mind a tram is like an omnibus with steel wheels on rails, not a cabin hanging from a cable (without any wheels or even an engine). Even a funicular is closer to a tram.

    What do you call it?

    Seilbahn. To be fair tram (the thing with wheels on rails) is called Straßenbahn here. So a literal translation of Seilbahn could be cable tram… Um cable car?

    Sometimes a tram is made from one or more Straßenbahnwagen (tram car or streetcar). Funny that it is called streetcar but drives on rails and cars which drive on streets aren’t.:)

    And then the word Seilbahn is used for both, a funicular or a cable car. Although there is the word Standseilbahn for the second.

    Meh. Languages are strange.




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    10 days ago

    Ever heard the sound of children on a school yard? They might scream but they are not in pain - most of the time. It’s their way of communication, I heard.

    Same goes for construction sites. It’s just the worker’s outdoors voices. They use it for long distance information transfer.

























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