Yes, This Is an Exit

joey: 13th Aug 2005 - 17:21 GMT

ok. i'll admit it - jyk is my alias. remember the old days? - unreinforced brick and mortar.

elaine: 4th Sep 2005 - 09:05 GMT

er, exit i think on signage. now i feel like i don't know... i may need a lie down

elaine: 12th Sep 2005 - 10:02 GMT

joey, it may be way out, but yes we use 'way out' (i thought i was going mad for a minute) and here it is in the tube...

Jamie: 12th Sep 2005 - 10:28 GMT

yes, but surely the phrase "way out" is the definition of the word exit. Or am i just being mental?

Jamie: 12th Sep 2005 - 10:29 GMT

or one of the definitions. The other being "to leave"

elaine: 12th Sep 2005 - 10:37 GMT

yes, but in another discussion i found that i was being very weirdly old fashioned and local by thinking that inflammable was in use - seems there is a policy decision against using it as 'people' think it means the opposite to flammable, hence when quizzed about 'way out' suddenly i thought it all might be going on in some weird british past, and only exit was currnet, but i report that way out is alive and well. see thread above

Peter: 12th Sep 2005 - 16:05 GMT

in latin, "exit" can be translated as "it goes out".

i cant help fut think of "dude, far out!" when i see "way out".

english english always makes more direct sense than american english. im american, and ill eb the first to admit it.