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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/01/19 11:52, Dave Swarthout
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<div>Nope, a mobile home is not the same as an RV or
travel_trailer. Have a look at the illustrations on the
Wikipedia page. It is, as the Wikipedia definition says, a
prefabricated structure meant for permanent living. It has
wheels, hence the mobile part of its name but it's moved very
infrequently, sometimes only from the factory to its location
inside of a, here's another American term, trailer park.</div>
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Wikipedia says <br>
<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Used as
permanent </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home"
title="Home"
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target="_blank">homes</a><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, or for holiday or
temporary accommodation<br>
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Note the OR .. so are not just permanent homes? <br>
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<div>An aside: As I consider this thread and the problems we're
having with terminology I came to the realization that most
countries don't have such things as we do in the U.S. Some of
the motorhomes you see on American highways are behemoths
based on a full-size bus chassis, powered by big rear-mounted
diesel engines. I'd be willing to bet that no other country
has anything even approaching the sheer size of these things.
And they are quite common here. And are they expensive? Yep.
100 to 200K USD and up.</div>
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Much much bigger than that. I know of one that is a tractor trailer
(semitrailer in Australian). <br>
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<div>Anyway, how best to describe the plethora of such vehicles,
in the U.S. especially where they are so common, in one word?
The term motorhome fits such monsters and works for many other
smaller vehicles like your garden variety Winnebagos and
extended van conversions but cannot describe unpowered
trailers or, in British vernacular, caravans. <br>
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<div>Where do we go from here?<br>
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14/01/19 09:07, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:<br>
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<div>Wow, so much for me naively
thinking that caravan was a universal
word! Should know better by now :-)</div>
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<div>However, there does appear to be a
better term. From <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorhome"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorhome</a><br>
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<div style="margin-left:40px">Motorhomes
are part of the much larger associated
group of <b>mobile homes</b> which
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<div style="margin-left:40px">caravans,
also known as tourers, and static
caravans.</div>
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So mobile_home appears to cover it. </div>
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<div>Not really, sorry</div>
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<div><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_home"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_home</a>:
"<span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">A </span><b
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">mobile home</b><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> (also </span><b
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">trailer</b><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><b
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">trailer home</b><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><b
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">house trailer</b><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><b
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">static caravan</b><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><b
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">residential caravan</b><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">) is a </span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabrication"
title="Prefabrication"
style="background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">prefabricated</a><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">structure, built in a
factory on a permanently attached chassis
before being transported to site (either by
being towed or on a trailer). Used as
permanent </span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home"
title="Home"
style="background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">homes</a><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, or for holiday or
temporary accommodation, they are left often
permanently or semi-permanently in one
place"</span></div>
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It would cover those things that slide in and out of utility
vehicles and act as accommodation. <br>
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I think the 'mobile home' is an acceptable term to cover the
lot. Why is it unacceptable? <br>
The emphasise on 'permanent' I think is wrong, but there is
enough vagueness to accept that 'mobile' means mobile. <br>
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