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by Symbiote 2348 days ago
Almost everyone means an electric kick scooter, not the vehicles in Vietnam - those are motor scooters.
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rainyMammoth 2348 days 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"

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Symbiote 2348 days 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.

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et2o 2348 days ago
They have called these things scooters for over twenty years at this point.
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