[Tagging] Cable distribution cabinet

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Wed Jun 9 02:36:22 BST 2010


On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:59 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> following recent discussions on Talk-DE, this would be power=station,
> while the power station (generating station) itself is called
> power=generator. At least that's what they wrote.
>
> This would be the sub_station according to that logic.

Yes, but this scheme will never work because it's totally at odds with
English. When English is your second language, all tags seem equally
arbitrary, but English speakers will expect power=station to be a
power station, and power=sub_station to be a substation. And you can't
blame them.

Steve




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