• Hadriscus@jlai.lu
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    1 day ago

    I almost hit pedestrians (twice!) because our Hyundai Kona re-enables the lane correction thing at each boot (I don’t know how to say “boot” but for cars, in english. But you get the gist). And I forget it’s there, and it’s literally life-threatening.

    (there are no curbs here, pedestrians have to walk on the roads)

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t know how to say “boot” but for cars, in english. But you get the gist

      That’s easy, it’s pronounced “Trunk”

      Edit: It was a joke!

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        16 hours ago

        No I mean to… start ? start a car ? that sounds too simple,… but I don’t want to look in the dictionary

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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          15 hours ago

          I think this is kind of on the edge of definition. Historically, you’d say “start” a car, but these days with cars practically being computers…I dunno. Hell, my car is just always on. I just get in and go, I don’t “start” it at all. Occasionally, it has an issue and I have to manually reboot it, so…

          As a native English speaker, my answer is: I don’t know, it depends.

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                4 hours ago

                Thanks I do appreciate it. Once in a while I stumble upon a combination of noun+verb that I’ve seldom (or never) encountered in the wild and I just stand there confused (because it’s so trivial!)

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                  2 hours ago

                  Of course! Also, I absolutely feel it, I’m learning a second language right now and it’s really opened my eyes to the utter weirdness of English, and more so just language in general