(06-05-2019, 07:46 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: I was going to ask, 'how do you drink coffee in Chicago, MTC,' but I realised in the nick of time that the answer would be something like, 'with my mouth' or 'from a mug' or some such. The question is really, 'how do you make coffee in Chicago, MTC? Percolator, Espresso, Filter, other?'

The trouble with definition games with an international audience is the variants of modern English. In this case, happily, both UK and US dictionaries agree that a vista is "a distant view through or along an avenue or opening" (Merriam-Webster); "A long, narrow view as between rows of trees or buildings, especially one closed by a building or other structure" (Oxford). Both also give it a meaning around mental events, "an extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events)" (Merriam-Webster); "A mental view of a succession of remembered or anticipated events" (Oxford).

Oxford also offers the following broad definition, "A pleasing view".

The specific definitions make me think "Distant Vista" does contain a redundancy. On the broad, Oxford, definition, Flyn's picture is a vista; using the specific Merriam-Webster, Oxford definitions, it isn't a vista at all; rather, a panorama or a landscape or even a view.

Dunno, really. Vista works for me.