Eventually, thou will see that all our language is about maritime and shipping. That huge ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal was arrested!
Taiwanese liner Evergreen confirmed on Wednesday that the 20,388 teu Ever Given has been arrested by a court in Egypt this week. The giant, near full ship is in the Great Bitter Lake with a crew of 25 onboard, weeks after it ran aground, blocking the Suez Canal. (link to article)
Seeing the word arrest used in the context of a ship is compelling because they don’t ‘arrest’ cars or ‘arrest’ planes, but it is said that ships are ‘arrested’. Arrest means to stop a ship.
When the police say they will arrest you, they are really arresting your ship or your person. They ask for your name, and all ships have names, then they arrest you (plural).
Here’s another example:
How does thou avoid (not evade) arrest? Simply don’t answer to the name. Are you ‘John Smith’? … Sorry, I’m not.
And just for the record, thou is not the all caps FIRST and LAST name.
Related
- Flip words: citizenship-shipcitizen, workplace-placework, understand-standunder
- Worship — War Ship — Ship of War — It’s not a church, and it’s not a country
- Using Mister and Miss is NOT polite. It turns people into navy personnel.
- Dockets, Master, Bar — Administrative courts are vessels in dry-dock
- First name means the first part of the name. The BURGER part of BURGER KING.
- Review these slides
- Read this,
- review this diagram of US vs USofA,
- read these six PDFs,
- watch Richard McDonald's seminar intro
- learn to speak like a simple man
- If this site ever goes down, the archive is on the wayback machine.
