Thursday, September 01, 2005
Oooo..
Have you ever wondered why, that a delivery by car or land vehicles is called shipment while a delivery by ships are called cargo? It's an irony! Or was it just that the Oxford English faculty trying to be funny? I've decided to investigate the reason why this is so. So far, I've already gathered a league of nerds, AHEM, i mean academics to study is strange phenomenon. They are highly educated people, consisting of mostly Ph.Ds of various different faculties in the world.
We had a long discussion with the academics, we've debated, argued and even got involved in a cat fight, No no.. not girls fighting but rather watching cats fight on the street. *Well, we apparently had the meeting in this strange place where cats population seemed to have boomed.* Gladly, we have come to agree on certain facts about this phenomenon. First, it's funny. HAHA. Second, it's funny! HAHAHA Third, it's funny! HAHAHAHA. ^_________^
My competent group of academics comprising of PE teachers, nuclear scientists, astronomers as well as zoologists have eventually come up with a brilliant theory regarding the phenomenon. It is a fact that cars was only invented much later than ships. I would say, at least a few thousand years before cars were invented by Nicholas Cugnot, our ancestors or primates, have already started to transport objects by sea. The word 'cargo' was actually a Spanish word which mean burden. The English just adopted the word... Ha! Lazy bumps! Eventually, when people get used to objects being transported by sea, they took the word ship for granted. They got so used to thinking that the majority of things transported are by ships that they eventually call things transported by land, a shipment!
We had a long discussion with the academics, we've debated, argued and even got involved in a cat fight, No no.. not girls fighting but rather watching cats fight on the street. *Well, we apparently had the meeting in this strange place where cats population seemed to have boomed.* Gladly, we have come to agree on certain facts about this phenomenon. First, it's funny. HAHA. Second, it's funny! HAHAHA Third, it's funny! HAHAHAHA. ^_________^
My competent group of academics comprising of PE teachers, nuclear scientists, astronomers as well as zoologists have eventually come up with a brilliant theory regarding the phenomenon. It is a fact that cars was only invented much later than ships. I would say, at least a few thousand years before cars were invented by Nicholas Cugnot, our ancestors or primates, have already started to transport objects by sea. The word 'cargo' was actually a Spanish word which mean burden. The English just adopted the word... Ha! Lazy bumps! Eventually, when people get used to objects being transported by sea, they took the word ship for granted. They got so used to thinking that the majority of things transported are by ships that they eventually call things transported by land, a shipment!
