May 16

Into a loss

General

When did people start “arriving into” stations and “landing into” airports, rather than “at” them?

Is this going to escalate? Will we soon need an “into sign” for use in email addresses?

7 comments so far...

lordhutton Said on May 16th, 2008 at 13:06:

And “customers” not “passengers”. Although admittedly some Devon folk say “Where’s that to?” instead of “where’s that”
ScottJ Said on May 16th, 2008 at 14:13:

Interestingly enough, pilots and transportation people (when talking among themselves, at least) tend to omit the preposition entirely and say “I will arrive Atlanta at 10:06 PM. It’s grammatically incorrect but efficient.

If a preposition’s to be used, “at” makes much more sense to me.
max Said on May 17th, 2008 at 13:41:

You can parachute into a station or an airport either of these places, and possibly parachute at an airport - shortly followed by being arrested and subsequently given trumped up charges for terrorism. Probably
max Said on May 17th, 2008 at 13:42:

You can parachute into a station or an airport, and possibly parachute at an airport - shortly followed by being arrested and subsequently given trumped up charges for terrorism. Probably
ianb1469 Said on May 18th, 2008 at 07:46:

An “into” symbol, how about “@”? Symbols can have more than one pronunciation, we have managed perfectly badly with multiple names for ASCII 35 for example.. :-(
stu Said on May 19th, 2008 at 12:46:

I say trains arrive into a station, but airplanes definitely arrive _onto_ an airport.

Not onto the terminal building, though, that’d be messy.

The Japanese (and I daresay Chinese) have a perfectly good “into” symbol - ? - depicting a confluence of two rivers.

The “out of” symbol - ? - depicts a plant growing out of the ground.

This, along with mouth ?, gives:

??? - entrance and ?? - exit.

Clever people, those orientals!
stu Said on May 19th, 2008 at 12:48:

Drat, I had a database error with my coercible encodings (or summat like that)