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[irmamar]

Is there any difference between 'journey' and 'trip'?

Thanks.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by irmamar

Is there any difference between 'journey' and 'trip'?

Thanks.

BrE answer: yes. A trip is short, a journey is long.

A trip to the coast (in England, never a long way)
A journey to Africa (from England, a long way)

An AmE answer would be different.

[irmamar]

Thanks . I'll try to remember (the word 'journey' is longer than 'trip')

[hermit]

Same, Perikles

[bobjenkins]

Pienso que ya existe un hilo sobre eso , pero no lo encontré

Como los otros dicen,

A trip is shorter than a journey

[chileno]

Originally Posted by bobjenkins

Pienso que ya existe un hilo sobre eso , pero no lo encontré

Como los otros dicen,

A trip is shorter than a journey

It must be why there isn't a rock band named Trip...

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by irmamar

Is there any difference between 'journey' and 'trip'?

Thanks.

Journey is more used in the books and definitions of the a travel.
Trip is more used when you go to a short or long travel some place.

Here any examples.

The journey to the marvelous human mind.
I will do a little trip to England.

Have a good day.

[irmamar]

I think if you went to England, that woult be a journey, not a trip, since England is far from Mexico.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by irmamar

I think if you went go to England, that woult be a journey, not a trip, since England is far from Mexico.

Corrección.

[irmamar]

There is another one (a typo): woult (I didn't realise)

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by irmamar

I think if you went to England, that woult be a journey, not a trip, since England is far from Mexico.

Originally Posted by chileno

Corrección.

Sorry, no correction needed. We do have subjunctives in English, you know.

[irmamar]

Thanks, I was aa bit confused, since I had used would.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Sorry, no correction needed. We do have subjunctives in English, you know.

Duh.

That's right. Thanks.

[wafflestomp]

From my understanding, journey is more like un trayecto in Spanish. Just a pompous word that's rarely used. You will almost never hear a native speaker of English talk about going on a journey anywhere.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by wafflestomp

From my understanding, journey is more like un trayecto in Spanish. Just a pompous word that's rarely used. You will almost never hear a native speaker of English talk about going on a journey anywhere.

Not at all, and it is more or less used in the same way it is used in English, and then some.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by wafflestomp

From my understanding, journey is more like un trayecto in Spanish. Just a pompous word that's rarely used. You will almost never hear a native speaker of English talk about going on a journey anywhere.

That may be the case in AmE, but certainly not BrE. I have had a direct comparison here. After a flight between two countries, I have heard an American stewardess say over the intercom "We hope you have had a good trip". I have also heard an English stewardess after a similar flight say "We hope that you have had a pleasant journey". I know which one I prefer.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

I don't think "trayecto" is any pompous or rarely used. Quite the contrary.

Estuvo lloviendo durante todo el trayecto.

Supe que la autopista tiene un tramo en construcción: ¿Qué tal está esa parte del trayecto?

Podemos parar en el trayecto, para comprar agua y refrescos.

[CrOtALiTo]

We can stop during the trip.

We can do a stop during the route.

Those are my ideas about this thread.