what is the difference between tour and journey

bubu   Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:09 pm GMT
Hello,
What is the difference between tour and journey?

Thank you
Geoff_One   Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:08 pm GMT
Add 'odyssey' to the question.
Brennus   Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:30 pm GMT
"Tour, journey, voyage and trip" are all semantic kissing cousins although each word has slightly different connotations. However, if you were trying to reduce a language to its simplest elements like Odgen's basic English does and a few artificial languages do, you could use a single word for all of them.
greg   Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:23 am GMT
Les 4 mots indiqués par Brennus ont une même origine : l'ancien français.

An <trip> vient de AF <treper>, <triper>, <tripper> (sens : "sauter", "trépigner" & "piétiner") qui ont donné Fr <trépigner>. Les étymons français sont d'origine germanique : parenté avec le bas-allemand <trippen> & <trippeln>, le haut-allemand <trippeln> et le néerlandais <trippelen> (le sens étant "trottiner").

An <tour> de AF <tor>, <tour>, <tourn>.

An <journey> de AF <journee>, <jornee>.

An <voyage> de AF <voiage>, <veiage>, <veage>, <vaiage>.
eito(jpn)   Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:31 am GMT
A tour makes you feel cheerful, generally. A "journey" sounds solemn to me. But this is my personal opinion.