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Re: All aboard the Lioness Line
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:46 pm
by Hoover Attack
oxo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:24 pm
I'm generally pretty enthusiastically in favour of being 'woke', but I don't like some of these for probably the extremely trivial reason that they don't
feel like tube line names. Windrush and Mildmay work alright, maybe because they're exclusively used as proper nouns, but having a 'Lioness Line' just feels so on the nose that I'd be embarrassed to say it out loud.
This I can get on board with.
Totally agree, Windrush, Mildmay, Liberty and Weaver lines all work as names.
Lioness doesn't - it's a bit Fast Shows Colin Hunt. Suffragette doesn't either.
Re: All aboard the Lioness Line
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:50 pm
by CEB
The Lioness Line is obviously temporary, until the England cis men’s team win the euros, and the line is renamed the Pride Line to recognise both sets of lions, and I’ll have to get the bus
Re: All aboard the Lioness Line
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:28 pm
by oxo
Not sure how long a time period the word 'temporary' covers, but it could be quite a wait
Re: All aboard the Lioness Line
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:42 pm
by oxo
Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:46 pm
oxo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:24 pm
I'm generally pretty enthusiastically in favour of being 'woke', but I don't like some of these for probably the extremely trivial reason that they don't
feel like tube line names. Windrush and Mildmay work alright, maybe because they're exclusively used as proper nouns, but having a 'Lioness Line' just feels so on the nose that I'd be embarrassed to say it out loud.
This I can get on board with.
Totally agree, Windrush, Mildmay, Liberty and Weaver lines all work as names.
Lioness doesn't - it's a bit Fast Shows Colin Hunt. Suffragette doesn't either.
Agreed, except I think Liberty Line sounds too American