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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by kens on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:44PM (#20097389)
In case anyone else wondered why an A380 would include religious symbolism: in North American English, a crèche is a Christmas nativity scene with baby Jesus, while in British English, a crèche is a nursery/daycare. The latter makes much more sense on a plane.
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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by mattlondon on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:45PM (#20097413)
Interesting - I assumed creche was an American term and widely understood. In the UK I've never heard it used much (we typically use "nursery" but I opted for creche based on the assumption that most readers are not UK-natives)
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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by alex_duf on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:39PM (#20097936)
It's French, it means both nursery and the nativity scene. Each side of the Atlantic decided to land on the other definition
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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by zupzupper on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:10PM (#20097659)
Nursery is way more common here in the States, creche is usually used when someone is writing sci-fi or fantasy and wants to sound fancy =)
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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by wishinghand on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:34PM (#20097890)
I agree with that. I’ve only known crèches as places where a human body is held in order to be augmented or have a mind transfer to a body in a second crèche.
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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by logfromblammo on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:20PM (#20097758)
Nurseries are for human children; creches are for ineffable alien offspring-rearing purposes.
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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by sapphire_tomb on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:03PM (#20097594)
I'm from the UK and I hear crèche used way more than nursery.
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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by bostik on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:10PM (#20097657)
Créche is for children, nursery is for plants.

Simple. (UK resident.)

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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by chrisseaton on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @05:29PM (#20099451)
> a crèche is a Christmas nativity scene with baby Jesus

That's a scene... of a crèche. It's the same terminology.

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