On 11/29/05, laserlight <laserlight@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I said:
> > "Motorized tank" doesn't make sense; perhaps "motorized
> > armored platoon" is what they meant.
Indy said
> I think your 'average' 8th-grade educated person would
> understand "tank" over "armoured" most days of the week.
All tanks are armored, but many armored vehicles are not
tanks. AFAIK, "motorized" means "wheeled vehicles"; if you
want to refer to tracked vehicles, you'd say "mechanized".
Also AFAIK, a tank by definition is tracked, not wheeled,
which is why I'd say "motorized tank" is a contradition.
Which is a point I think Oerjan was trying to [obliquely] make.
B'sides, LL, you're smarter than the average 8th-grade educated person.
Although probably more demented.
Mk