OT: excellent book on information theory

[Roger Upole]

"Steven D'Aprano" <steve at REMOVEMEcyber.com.au> wrote in message news:43CF16A2.1000000 at REMOVEMEcyber.com.au...
> Roger Upole wrote:
>
>>>I wouldn't have figured out that a "car park" was a parking lot.  I
>>>might have thought it was a park where you go to look at scenery from
>>>inside your car.  Sort of a cross between a normal park and a drive-in
>>>movie
>>
>>
>> Just as another isolated data point, the first time I saw the
>> expression "car park", I went and looked it up.  Even
>> though from the context the meaning seemed obvious,
>> I was left with some doubts as to whether it might have
>> some more specific connotations.  For instance, it could
>> have referred to a metered lot, or to a parking garage
>> with time tickets, or even some kind of valet parking.
>
> But a car park can be any one of those things, or something else such as an unmetered lot.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Steven.
>

And this is exactly my point.  Without already knowing
that it's used as a general term, one doesn't know just
what the expression implies (or doesn't imply).

         Roger



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