What kinds of distances did they use the pushme-pullyou trains for?
I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance over the idea of a train with a bus transmission. It's not that it doesn't make sense -- I can't see any reason it wouldn't -- but it just feels like an odd juxtaposition of ideas that are catagorized farther apart in my head than I can figure out a reason for. Oof. Not the most parseable sentence.
"Whose head have you been walking in?"
Good question. I'm not sure. It seems I have been sleeping carelessly. (Hmm. As long as I don't litter while I'm there, no harm - no foul?)
As a matter of fact, those things were even called railbuses.
They were used for commuter traffic. That, of course, can translate to 100 km, the distance from a small country whistlestop to the county capital and market city.
Whaddya mean, not the most parseable sentence? It came quite natural to me. I have seen (and, heaven help us, generated) sentences whose parse trees are tangled skeins. That exemplar felt quite normal.
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I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance over the idea of a train with a bus transmission. It's not that it doesn't make sense -- I can't see any reason it wouldn't -- but it just feels like an odd juxtaposition of ideas that are catagorized farther apart in my head than I can figure out a reason for. Oof. Not the most parseable sentence.
"Whose head have you been walking in?"
Good question. I'm not sure. It seems I have been sleeping carelessly. (Hmm. As long as I don't litter while I'm there, no harm - no foul?)
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They were used for commuter traffic. That, of course, can translate to 100 km, the distance from a small country whistlestop to the county capital and market city.
Whaddya mean, not the most parseable sentence? It came quite natural to me. I have seen (and, heaven help us, generated) sentences whose parse trees are tangled skeins. That exemplar felt quite normal.
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