http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/brief-mention-malls/ A blog mostly about language Thu, 23 May 2013 18:20:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/brief-mention-malls/#comment-29944 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:03:47 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11550#comment-29944 There’s considerable variation in usage here, some of it noted in my earlier posting on mall semantics. My own preferred usage is like yours, with “shopping center” for open-air collections of shops and “mall” for enclosed ones. (That’s undercut by the now-fixed expression “strip mall”, where there’s no enclosure from the elements but the shops are attached to one another. So for people like us, a strip mall isn’t a mall.) I believe that for some people, (open-air) shopping centers came to be viewed as more down-market than (enclosed) malls, a distinction that led the people who build and market these collections to prefer “mall” for all of them.

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/brief-mention-malls/#comment-29621 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:56:03 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11550#comment-29621 I don’t get it. To me a mall is explicitly not “open-air”.

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