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It's a sliding glass door that leads outside, often to a deck
Also known as a patio door or, even more plainly, a sliding door.
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Exactly. A doorwall.
Patio doors can be sliding or swinging. Sliding doors could mean interior doors not meant to seal against weather.
A doorwall is kind of a weird thing, but it's very specifically a sliding door that seals against the elements.
Y'all overthink this stuff.
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I just find the contempt for the term doorwall hilarious. Everyone unfamiliar with it says it's dumb, or over complicated, when it's actually very much the opposite. It's fewer syllables than any other term people use and yet it's just immediately rejected as invalid.
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...12 babies later...
i wasn't intending to accuse, but that is always the response I've gotten. "why don't you just call it a 'sliding glass door?'" well...because that's basically a goddamn sentence when a two syllable word can suffice?
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Just to carry on this sillyness
And the patio door remains exclusively that sliding glass exterior door - whether it leads out to a patio or not.
That's what we call a pocket door. If it slides away into a wall, anyway. The ones that slide along the wall, still visible when open, we call a barn door.
And the patio door remains exclusively that sliding glass exterior door - whether it leads out to a patio or not.
Today I guess everyone learns the term "retronym"
EDIT: @Gruebeard, here is a web link to the dictionary definition of "retronym."
--Patrick
EDIT: @Gruebeard, here is a web link to the dictionary definition of "retronym."
--Patrick
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BananaHands
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If your username was going to be grilled cheese related, what would it be?
Aye, if I wasnt so lazy I would've thought of something clever like that.[DOUBLEPOST=1481868506,1481868115][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh, and a question for @BErt, since this is a thread for that. How do I change my username to Gruebread?
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Convince a large number of new dyslexic users and let it take care of itself