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 Post subject: Sub-subcompact mini-minivan?
PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:34 am 
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Australian air safety investigators on Friday blamed an oxygen bottle for a mid-air explosion which blew a minivan-size hole in the side of Qantas 747, but said they don't know why the bottle blew up...

The resulting explosion tore a 2-metre by 1.5 meter hole in the plane's fuselage, destroying cabling and disabling the plane's instrument landing system, one of the flight management computers, and the anti-skid brake system, the report said.


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 Post subject: Re: Sub-subcompact mini-minivan?
PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:09 am 
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Nessie3 wrote:
The resulting explosion tore a 2-metre by 1.5 meter hole in the plane's fuselage ...


Hyphenation aside, care to pick a style on meter?


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 Post subject: Re: Sub-subcompact mini-minivan?
PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:08 am 
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Powderhorn wrote:
Nessie3 wrote:
The resulting explosion tore a 2-metre by 1.5 meter hole in the plane's fuselage ...


Hyphenation aside, care to pick a style on meter?


In Oz, it's metre. In US, meter, I think.


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 Post subject: Re: Sub-subcompact mini-minivan?
PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:53 am 
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Re: picking a style: Obviously they're writing for a global audience—a little of both.

Re: "minivan-sized": Here the copy read "car-sized," but even that's a ... well, I was going to say stretch, but that's the wrong direction. Maybe a "Smart Car–sized hole."


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:29 am 
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If it's car-sized or minivan-sized, it could only be one of the those cars that circus clowns come out of.


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