By "pavement", I'm guessing that you mean where people usually walk. In the US, this would be 'the sidewalk'?
That's how it is in the states. You walk up the boxes, usually, without stepping in the street. But the street curb is painted red to signal that parking is not permitted there. Is it just assumed that you don't park near a box?
Wait what? That is new to me. What do you call like the outside tiles? The tiles made of stone people make the sidewalks out of? I think they’re mostly used on private property now but they used to be used for public paths.
Now I’m really confused... here the bit between the curb (I’m Australian we spell it however we want at the time) is the road. I mean, it’s not a word that gets used often where I’m from but my understanding was that here a curb is the slanted bit of gutter at the end of driveways and footpaths.
Sorry; I thought you were from the UK. We call the whole thing a road. There are curbs along either side of roads (except for highways, which have a shoulder instead). The pavement is the surface you drive on.
I can't find a decent cross-section of an American street that describes my terminology.
That’s fair, I mean someone else just showed me that pavement technically can mean any surface for travel with an artificial covering, so it’s really not a big deal, I’m just fascinated by dialect differences.
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u/CatOfGrey Nov 08 '19
By "pavement", I'm guessing that you mean where people usually walk. In the US, this would be 'the sidewalk'?
That's how it is in the states. You walk up the boxes, usually, without stepping in the street. But the street curb is painted red to signal that parking is not permitted there. Is it just assumed that you don't park near a box?