  Young_detroiter Member Username: Young_detroiter Post Number: 78 Registered: 08-2004 |
If you get HIGH enough (or take the Detroit People Mover), you might see Windsor's coastline, according to this Detroit News article: "Demand for the [People Mover], which completes a 2.9-mile loop every 13 or 14 minutes and boasts sweeping views of the city and Windsor coast, was so great during Super Bowl that visitors lined up outside Renaissance Center station for one and a half hours just to board, he said." "Detroit's plan: Get Final Four fans talking, spending" http://detnews.com/article/200 90326/BIZ/903260367/Detroit+s+ plan++Get+Final+Four+fans+talk ing++spending Okay. So, maybe the Detroit River isn't really a river, after all. We accept that our fair "river" is actually a strait...perhaps, it is even something different. However, it is certainly not a sea. Therefore, "waterfront" or even the common, but erroneous "riverfront" would be acceptable - but "coast?" Also, noteworthy is that our monorail is such a tourist attraction that there is the potential for people to wait over an hour in line for a ride. Our monorail has the demand of a roller coaster! That's just neat! | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 4332 Registered: 10-2003 |
There is some debate over whether it is a true strait or not, because straits usually connect two bodies of water at the same elevation and that are basically the same body of water (think the Straits of Mackinaw). But, it is most definitely a river, since it has a slight gradient, if even calling it a strait is ambiguous, so, it could definitely be called a riverfront. Yeah, but you're right about the fact that it's definitely not a coast. | ||
Sumas Member Username: Sumas Post Number: 851 Registered: 01-2008 |
Coast just means shoreline. Shoreline means waters' edge. | ||
Retroit Member Username: Retroit Post Number: 1054 Registered: 04-2008 |
coast: land alongside the sea; seashore (source: Webster's Umpteenth Edition) | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 5437 Registered: 06-2004 |
perhaps it's being used in the obsolete sense: the boundary or border of a country | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3738 Registered: 07-2004 |
They should have said shoreline, right? That would have been my choice. Maybe people are just too used to saying East Coast and West Coast and now "Third Coast." At this rate, within 25 years words will mean anything you want to, and it'll be a magical land with fairies and gumdrops!  | ||
Retroit Member Username: Retroit Post Number: 1074 Registered: 04-2008 |
How would you define "fairies"? (just kidding! - no response required) | ||
Wpitonya Member Username: Wpitonya Post Number: 95 Registered: 08-2005 |
I agree that "coast" can be used to describe the water's edge, but they used the term "monorail." This is incorrect. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 1170 Registered: 10-2003 |
Detroitnerd, no need to be sooo littoral ... | ||
Bobl Member Username: Bobl Post Number: 697 Registered: 07-2008 |
I just call it a beautiful thing that has been hidden and abused. | ||
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover Post Number: 538 Registered: 02-2008 |
Montrealers call their Mont-Royal "La montagne", "the mountain", when it is not in the same league as the Rockies. We have every right to call it a river. | ||
Alan55 Member Username: Alan55 Post Number: 2632 Registered: 09-2005 |
LMichigan, calling it the "Detroit River" is a contradiction in terms, since the french term "detroit" means "strait", or "by the straits". |
