Odd discussion about the Ring.

[CommanderBond]

I don't know where exactly to put this, so Mods feel free to move if you wish..

I had an interesting "debate" on Youtube the other day.

For starters, I like watching videos of other people reacting to movies and this time someone was watching "Rush" for the first time. The debate came up where they are at the Nurburgring for the German GP. The scene is where one of the commentators calls the Ring "The Graveyard".

I put in the comment section that "The Ring is still in use today and is better known as The Green Hell" - well someone replied to my comment saying "Its sometimes called The Green Hell, not 'better known as'

that sounded kinda flippant to me, so I wanted to post this to see what the community thought. I first heard of the Ring back in the early 1990s when I was in the service and I was on temporary duty to Germany for six months and ive always heard it called The Green Hell.


Discuss....

 

[Greycap]

Well Jackie Stewart called it the Green Hell already in 1968, so there's that. And I don't think it has any other "official" nickname at all.

 

[Gerarghini]

Feels like a weird thing to get hung up on that's YT comments for ya, I guess.

 

[Famine]

YouTube comments are usually the worst.

"Better-known as" implies a name more widely used than the "real" or original one. Vincent Furnier, for example, is better-known as Alice Cooper. Neta-Lee Hershlag is better-known as Natalie Portman. Peter Hernandez is better-known as Bruno Mars. Eric Bishop is better-known as Jamie Foxx.

It could also refer to someone/something known more widely for something of which it is a part rather than individually, or a broad area known more widely for an individual component, or a character that someone plays. Namyang is better-known as Hyundai's research and development hub, Janette Tough is better-known as Wee Jimmy Krankie, and so on.

To say that the Nurburgring is better-known as the Green Hell implies that the Green Hell name is more widely used than the Nurburgring/Ring name. Personally, I don't think that's the case and wouldn't refer to it as better-known as that in an article.