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07-19-21, 06:25 AM
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07-19-21, 08:24 AM
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07-19-21, 09:06 AM
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Also, it's a silly question. If most people have been using a word "wrong" for centuries, of course that wrong becomes right. It's a living language, not a set of definitions frozen at some arbitrary time.
Does it drive such people crazy that "sanction" means both "approve" and "punish", but in Latin means "make holy"? How many levels of "wrong" is that development?
07-19-21, 11:09 AM
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07-19-21, 11:23 AM
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Whether or not a constitution is fixed in time is a fit subject for an argument. However, the only languages that don't evolve are dead languages.
I'm pretty sure no one really believes that we're still supposed to be speaking Chaucerian or even Shakespearean English, but thy mileage mayhaps varieth. .
I'm pretty sure no one really believes that we're still supposed to be speaking Chaucerian or even Shakespearean English, but thy mileage mayhaps varieth. .
07-19-21, 11:57 AM
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Whether or not a constitution is fixed in time is a fit subject for an argument. However, the only languages that don't evolve are dead languages.
I'm pretty sure no one really believes that we're still supposed to be speaking Chaucerian or even Shakespearean English, but thy mileage mayhaps varieth. .
I'm pretty sure no one really believes that we're still supposed to be speaking Chaucerian or even Shakespearean English, but thy mileage mayhaps varieth. .
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07-19-21, 11:58 AM
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Unless you're from Pittsburgh, in which case it's "yinz".
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07-19-21, 12:16 PM
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07-19-21, 05:05 PM
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07-19-21, 06:48 PM
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Out of curiosity, does a "smart" phone autocorrect spelling for the user when they are chimping a text together to default output 'breaks' rather than brakes?
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07-19-21, 07:04 PM
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07-19-21, 07:05 PM
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Kurtis Blow is the authority on breaks and brakes.
07-19-21, 07:11 PM
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Oh, and while I'm here...
"Price point" means price. Why add an extra word?
Why did someone make up "colorway"? What's wrong with "color" or "colors"?
Yeah, I know.
"Price point" means price. Why add an extra word?
Why did someone make up "colorway"? What's wrong with "color" or "colors"?
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07-19-21, 07:36 PM
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Hey, you "we're stuck with a word's original meaning " guys, "peloton" means "ball".
07-19-21, 08:38 PM
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Agreed, I've always heard "price point" used when comparing more than one product in approximately the same price range, like two cars at the same price point. Roughly equal price in a market with wildly varying prices in that example.
Colorway is just pretentious. Apparently, it's a borrowed word from the fashion industry, where it's used to differentiate the same pattern in different color schemes. I think we should return it.
07-20-21, 05:20 AM
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07-20-21, 06:08 AM
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Price point is a marketing term. It refers to a product designed to address a specific level of product offering. An example of levels would be a set of tires sold on the basis of "good", "better", "best" or cars Corolla, Camry, or Avalon. The Toyota Camry and Honda Accord address market demand at the same price point.
Another in the vein of cycling word usage that totally blows.."kit". Makes me want to barf (retch, gag, heave, hurl, chunder, spew, toss one's cookies, or do the technicolor yawn)
Another in the vein of cycling word usage that totally blows.."kit". Makes me want to barf (retch, gag, heave, hurl, chunder, spew, toss one's cookies, or do the technicolor yawn)
07-20-21, 06:51 AM
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Price point is a marketing term. It refers to a product designed to address a specific level of product offering. An example of levels would be a set of tires sold on the basis of "good", "better", "best" or cars Corolla, Camry, or Avalon. The Toyota Camry and Honda Accord address market demand at the same price point.
Another in the vein of cycling word usage that totally blows.."kit". Makes me want to barf (retch, gag, heave, hurl, chunder, spew, toss one's cookies, or do the technicolor yawn)
Another in the vein of cycling word usage that totally blows.."kit". Makes me want to barf (retch, gag, heave, hurl, chunder, spew, toss one's cookies, or do the technicolor yawn)
I don't agree with you on kit, That's a perfectly understandable word that covers all cycling gear and equipment that is on the bike other than the bike itself, so it covers clothing, accessories, tools, bottles, etc. That's a lot of work accomplished for a three letter word, and I don't see any reason that the only practical alternative, which is "gear", would be preferable, especially as that may get confused with "gears".
"Price point" is exactly as you describe it, you explained it better than I did. There's a lot of synonyms, like "market segment", "class", etc. It definitely conveys more than the word "price" by itself. It's a perfectly good phrase that is actually useful. It's a way of comparing like products in a segmented market.
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07-20-21, 07:17 AM
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Gear and gears is only confused by those where English is not their first language. A non-(native) English speaker often uses "equipments" where "equipment" is the correct choice. Non-native English speakers being confused by English is normal (as are those speaking many foreign, to them, languages)
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