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WCDT - September 12th to September 16th, 2022 (strips #4871 to #4875)
Torlek:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 16 Sep 2022, 00:18 ---
--- Quote from: Torlek on 15 Sep 2022, 18:17 ---Imagine a lawn, just behind the house. Probably surrounded by a privacy fence. Certainly going to be some landscaping and trees, but not enough to really be a "garden".
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This again shows the dialect disparity. A garden to me could be a landscaped park or a patch of weedy grass out front, as long as it is green. This does all come into everything just being bigger in 'Merica.
I am veering very much off-topic
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Hence my usage of lawn. I had presumed that was the British word for an expanse of well-kept grass with few, if any, landscaping features. I presumed garden was a more formally landscaped area centered on flowering plants/bushes/etc rather than an area of grass. When Americans say yard in relation to a house (as in comparison to, say, a school yard or prison yard, which sound more in line with your expectations), we mean we took a bit of a football pitch, put it by our house and we may have some trees or flower beds in it.
Storel:
Apartment buildings tend to have the sort of backyards that TinPenguin describes, while single-family houses in the suburbs (and Northhampton definitely sounds sub-urban) tend to have green backyards.
Even in San Francisco, which is definitely a city, most houses don't have room for any front yard at all, but they'll have something green in the back.
Wingy:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 15 Sep 2022, 18:58 ---Clinton cannot swim. If Clinton could swim, he'd be cavorting around CubeTown like a breaching dolphin.
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Then he fooled everyone around 2299 and 2305.
Probably hasn't thought of it yet. Or he just got the wrong companion AI (2337).
JimC:
--- Quote from: Torlek on 16 Sep 2022, 08:49 ---I had presumed that was the British word for an expanse of well-kept grass with few, if any, landscaping features. I presumed garden was a more formally landscaped area centered on flowering plants/bushes/etc rather than an area of grass.
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Tinpenguin's usage sits alongside mine (SE England). In a domestic context I would say a yard is enclosed and hard surfaced/bare earth. A garden is the totality of an area that is at least partially cultivated. A lawn is an area of grass within a garden. So a garden may consist only of a lawn, or it may be lawn plus flower beds. But just to confuse things more a vegetable garden may be an area within a garden used for growing vegetables.
Wingy:
Hmmmm. Then what is a "green", as in "Willesden green" from Danger Mouse. A park (US term) with a lawn (UK term)?
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