Calling a 'Bike' a 'Build'
09-10-10, 04:28 PM
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09-10-10, 04:29 PM
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I always thought of the difference between a Bike and a Build in this sense is a Bike is something you buy put together, in a store or as a package and a Build is something you pick out the parts for, whether you put it together yourself or not, it would be custom components. Just my view of the usage for both words.
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Hello lohump,
Were you on vacation today with nothing to do?
"Build" as in, "my latest build," is probably transitive. You use build as a noun (though not common usage) when you've just finished assembling the bicycle. I can't recall anyone using it after they've had the bike for a period of time.
Kit has been used for a very long time in the UK. It's usage in the US is fairly recent.
BTW, I'm glad you support free speech.
Were you on vacation today with nothing to do?
"Build" as in, "my latest build," is probably transitive. You use build as a noun (though not common usage) when you've just finished assembling the bicycle. I can't recall anyone using it after they've had the bike for a period of time.
Kit has been used for a very long time in the UK. It's usage in the US is fairly recent.
BTW, I'm glad you support free speech.
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09-30-10, 06:40 PM
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09-30-10, 10:30 PM
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10-01-10, 01:36 AM
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OK, I'm not going go comment on "certificated." On the other hand, "birthed" is just an example of a technical term escaping its original narrow definition through the efforts of people who don't appreciate the difference and think it sounds fancier. (You were born at St. Francis Hospital; you were birthed through a series of uterine contractions etc.) My personal pet peeve in this regard is people who use "order of magnitude" to mean "larger" with no sense of what the phrase actually means mathematically. A former boss compounded this by always saying "magnitude of order" in meetings with clients, which drove me insane.
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10-01-10, 01:26 PM
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I vote we call it all "assembly/assemblies". Have you seen my latest assembly?
All I really do is assemble wheels. I don't "build" them. I don't have molds, etc.
Funny this is what we worry about. The guy at the UPS store that I ship all of my wheels out of looks at every invoice I send. All over it the phrase "Custom Wheels" is explicitly stated. He refers to them as "tires". "Bike tires, " to be exact.
"Been building a lot of tires lately?"
*cringe*
All I really do is assemble wheels. I don't "build" them. I don't have molds, etc.
Funny this is what we worry about. The guy at the UPS store that I ship all of my wheels out of looks at every invoice I send. All over it the phrase "Custom Wheels" is explicitly stated. He refers to them as "tires". "Bike tires, " to be exact.
"Been building a lot of tires lately?"
*cringe*
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Some people I know have the opposite problem... refers to the tires as "wheels". Doh.
10-01-10, 01:58 PM
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@ the UPS center I work at, we refer to tires as f'ing rubber.
Example :: "Hey, Travis, You got 32 pieces of f'ing Costco rubber, get ready to eat it or die!"
Example :: "Hey, Travis, You got 32 pieces of f'ing Costco rubber, get ready to eat it or die!"
10-01-10, 03:05 PM
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people don't call 'bikes' builds. they call 'builds' builds. You have to build a bike in order for it to be a bike. When someone refers to a build, they are referring to the state of building the bike. People don't use the two words synonymously.
10-01-10, 03:45 PM
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10-01-10, 06:32 PM
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And who let the Brit in on the discussion of English?
