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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 roa

by NhanH 7y ago

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.

Symbiote 7y ago
Almost everyone means an electric kick scooter, not the vehicles in Vietnam - those are motor scooters.
- rainyMammoth 7y ago
  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"
  - et2o 7y ago
    They have called these things scooters for over twenty years at this point.
  - Symbiote 7y ago
    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.