Does it irk you……………

[mopar head]

The whole thing about the REdefining of words and terms pisses me off. You get to where NOTHING seems safe from these assholes.
To add, terms like Could care less, HOT water heater, JUST sayin and asking for a friend smack of ignorance and a lack of vocabulary creativity. When a formerly respectable outfit like Webster gives in because so many ignorant people say things wrong, it really is pathetic.



Friggin "Door Cards"....Son of a ***** that **** pisses me off.
MFer, this isn't England. Stop using a British term like that. What's next? You're going to call your hood a bonnet and the trunk a boot? Get wipers for your windscreen too?

Calm down buddy

 

[sr71mopar]

In my opinion, they are wing windows. Where did this vent window bs come from?

 

[72bluNblu]

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The whole thing about the REdefining of words and terms pisses me off. You get to where NOTHING seems safe from these assholes.
To add, terms like Could care less, HOT water heater, JUST sayin and asking for a friend smack of ignorance and a lack of vocabulary creativity. When a formerly respectable outfit like Webster gives in because so many ignorant people say things wrong, it really is pathetic.



Friggin "Door Cards"....Son of a ***** that **** pisses me off.
MFer, this isn't England. Stop using a British term like that. What's next? You're going to call your hood a bonnet and the trunk a boot? Get wipers for your windscreen too?

Lol. So, you rant about this not being England, but, you insist on using a measurement system based on the length of an English king's foot? A system literally called the Imperial System? Yeah, we were using the Imperial System because of the English. We just kept the outdated English system when everyone else changed.

Oh, and you won't like where Ma Mopar got "propeller shaft" from either. That one's in the FSM's. That's very English. They call fenders "wings" too.

Seems like the common thread here is you not knowing the history of any of the terms you insist on using (or not using).

Discussing calmly like gentlemen:
Wikipedia is not a very good reference. It can be easily altered and updated. And the Webster dictionary may be a great source for a lot of things, but it isn't where I am going to go for definitions on terms/items related to physics or mechanical engineering. I am 75 and it was always fuel in engines and electricity for motors.
Think about the frozen dessert Sherbet. It was spelled that way for a LONG time and properly pronounced Sure-Bet. People incorrectly pronounced it Sher-Bert for so many years, that the Webster dictionary finally accepted it and listed Sherbert as a proper spelling and pronunciation. It is possible that the true definitions of motor and engine have been twisted around so much that they have blurred. I had a lot of Physics and some engineering classes in college, and the definitions of engine and motor were set in stone back then.
Also, go to a parts store and tell them you want a starter engine, radiator fan engine, heater/AC blower engine or a windshield wiper engine and they will stare at you like you have a horn growing out of your forehead.
You are certainly welcome to call them whatever you want, but I am sticking with what I have learned over the past 60 years.

While I agree that Wikipedia and Websters aren't always a good source as a technical reference, they're still correct about the whole motor/engine thing.

You wouldn't say "starter engine" or any of your other examples because that's factually wrong. Those are all motors. But an engine is ALSO a motor. All engines, in fact, are motors. But not all motors are engines. Not that a parts store is a particularly good example, but if you go into the same parts store and ask for a motor mount you probably wouldn't get the same look would you? Well, that's not incorrect, that's why. Now maybe it's not the official name of a particular mount, I think the official mopar term in the parts manual is "engine front support insulator". But saying that at the parts counter would probably get you a funny look again.

Regardless, using the term motor for an internal combustion engine goes back WAAAY further than 60 years. Even MoPar= Motor Parts, and that goes back to 1937. So even just using "mopar" is endorsing that use of the term motor.

Also, lots of things you learned 60 years ago have since been proven to be wrong. It happens. Heck, lots of things I was taught 30 years ago have since been proven wrong. So, that's not a valid argument either.

 

[Kern Dog]

No, dipshit but there’s a common theme of you completely lacking any humility as if every word that you state is gospel.
Nobody likes an arrogant prick.
Try other means to impress people. This plan of yours isn’t working.

 

[Dana67Dart]

 

[barbee6043]

Heres one.... is it a head rest, or a head restraint?
My drivers ed teacher was quite emphatic that it was NOT to rest your head on, but its there to RESTRAIN it in the event of a collision.
Always irks me when I hear someone refer to it as a headrest.

All I know is that darn thing is always in my way,,,can't see chit!!!

 

[33IMP]

Or the infamous Detroit Locker!!!

I love my 3.91 Detroit locker..... but the money they get for them today... it's not happening again.

 

[33IMP]

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In my opinion, they are wing windows. Where did this vent window bs come from?

I've always called em windwings.

 

[MMissile]

Calm down buddy

 

[junkyardhero]

Get wipers for your windscreen too?

you mean squeekers for the flippy flaps to keep the muck off, mate?

 

[Gib Warnick]

When you hear somebody call a sure grip a posi?

Doesn't bother me nat all.n Word on street..

 

[340six]

you mean squeekers for the flippy flaps to keep the muck off, mate?

I got a boot spoiler and a bonnet scoop.......Mate.

 

[Dana67Dart]

I got a boot spoiler and a bonnet scoop.......Mate.

now translate that to creole!

 

[340six]

now translate that to creole!

spoiler 'sur le trunk, et une scoop 'sur le bonnet, hein...... Mon ami.

 

[340six]

Here's one for ya. Were there 11 second street cars in the 70s?

Mais non, chèr!