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Except that it doesn't, hence "cable car" (in International English).



"Seilbahn" in german. Literally translated as rope track.

The material that a rope is made out of, doesn't really matter. What matters is it being built up of smaller fibers.


The point is that if you're going to pedantically correct someone, they need to be wrong. No one is wrong when they say rope.


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Someone else wasn't wrong.




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