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4:36am Apr 21 2014
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Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a
shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
To make us go "Hmm..."
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4:38am Apr 21 2014
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For the same reason that we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway.
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4:39am Apr 21 2014
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glados what have you done
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4:42am Apr 21 2014
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because they said that ships should have cargo then they invented the car and said because cargo is already taken we will give you shipment so no one gets confused and then everyone got confused so there plan failed.
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4:46am Apr 21 2014
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Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
Because a shipment is normally small and a cargo is normally big, and car is smaller than ship :3
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5:02am Apr 21 2014
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To confuse people e.e Never underestimate the level of human wickedness
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5:05am Apr 21 2014
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Ugh Llama it's too early for these confusing questions ;')
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5:24am Apr 21 2014
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there was a clerical error high up in the transport department and instead of admitting there mistake they left things to hide there shame
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5:27am Apr 21 2014
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cause they werent thinking at the time they called it those two things
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5:30am Apr 21 2014
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Because some people just like to watch the world burn.
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5:31am Apr 21 2014
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Because the english language is messed up
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5:45am Apr 21 2014
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Because Earthlings are dumb xD
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6:53am Apr 21 2014
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To confuse the public. Maybe we've had it all wrong and our cars are actually just land boats, and ships just water cars. Its a government conspiracy to make us think we cant make flying cars and boats so they don't have to open the skyway.
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7:12am Apr 21 2014
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Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
~ Because someone just wanted to do our heads in. They waited for someone smart enough to realise it enough to question it and now are probably laughing their asses off considering the sheer amount of people going bonkers for answers on google xD
Now this lengthy answer was obtained from google =) Just to quench the curiousity.
"This is a very good logical question actually. From what I've looked into, the Oxford dictionary says "Cargo" comes from Spanish, "Carga", which came from late Latin, Carricure, which derives from latin, "carcare". carcare means "to load" from the latin term carrus, which means "wheeled vehicle". So in the sense of "cargo", it can be seen as strange that we use the term for when transporting goods by ship or plane. Cargo is a generic term and can refer to goods that are being transported by car, ship, plane, truck, and any other vehicle. The term "Shipment" or "shipping" on the other hand is an extremely general term with many meanings, however according to a few sources like Wikipedia it's most common usage is with actual ships via merchant navies. They make up nearly 90% of international trade. In any case, "Shipment" and "shipping" are used when transporting goods in any vehicle, though it originally derives from transporting in boats or actual ships. The term "shipment" is almost an inverse to cargo, in that rather it being the goods that are transported, it is the transportation of those goods. So you can technically say something like "A shipment is the transportation of cargo". So originally, Cargo meant goods being transported by wheeled vehicles like wagons and such, and shipping did mean to transport goods by ship. Since those origins, the words' meanings have altered and changed into forms that in a literal sense make... well, little sense. This is quite common and there are many words that lose their true meaning over time.. some words have even change their meaning in multitudes to the point that it's become detached from it's original definition."
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8:50am Apr 21 2014
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I really don't know.
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9:32am Apr 21 2014 (last edited on 10:17am Apr 21 2014)
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Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
Original answer was because some people like watching the world burn but I didn't realize someone else said that until just now, so
because people like to divide by 0. o-o
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9:40am Apr 21 2014
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Wild Pretzel became confused! Pretzel hit itself in its confusion!
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9:43am Apr 21 2014
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Because cars are transported on ships hence cargo, and shipments by car are actually called deliveries and by plane it's called a shipment but that's not the question huh xD Also if by plane it's a shipment because the sky is like a big mirror of the sea and it won't sound cool to say planement or carment would it?
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10:18am Apr 21 2014
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To make small children cry and to baffle and to frighten adults... 3:
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10:36am Apr 21 2014
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There are loads of weird stuff like that...
Like.. Iceland and Greenland...
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