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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 by NhanH on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:40PM (#22005444)
Scooter is a horrible horrible mean of transporation for the mass.

I lives in Vietnam, where scooters are dominant. It is even less compact than car on the road.

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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 by Symbiote on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:03PM (#22005719)
Almost everyone means an electric kick scooter, not the vehicles in Vietnam - those are motor scooters.
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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 by rainyMammoth on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:16PM (#22005859)
Which I also find a weird language abuse. The original meaning of "scooter" is the vehicle in Vietnam. Why did we suddenly agree to call those "kick scooters" as "scooters".

This is even more confusing for companies like "scoot" that rent both "scooters" and "kick scooters"

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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 by Symbiote on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:03PM (#22006384)
No. The original meaning is actually a boat for use on ice and water, in 1903.

Then in 1917 it was used to refer to the children's toy.

Source: printed OED.

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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 by et2o on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:32PM (#22006046)
They have called these things scooters for over twenty years at this point.
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