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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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Just a little bit of feedback. Creative new language can be fun... but the headline is completely incomprehensible to me!
I often feel annoyed when checking out new communities that create their own "elitist" lingo or abbreviations to "save time". It doesn't save time for the reader!
BTW coded language is also a warning sign for cults :D
PS: Also maybe a better slang might be fucar (from fuck-cars)
Weird way to defend your own ignorance ?
I've been riding motorcycles on roads for 40 years, as long as I have many other riders have referred to car drivers as cagers, and cars as cages. I don't use the terms but to infer its some new set of elite words becase you haven't heard it before is bizzare.
Open a dictionary, there will be many 1000s of words that are new to you.
Non car users are punching up, the world and its peoples are being destroyed and dominated by inappropriate car use.
Thanks for the info, that is interesting. But you do agree that it is specific slang for a specific subculture, and the purpose of slang is to get people invested and define an in-group and out-group.
I read a headline in "all" that was completely incomprehensible to me. It DID make me feel stupid. Clearly this shows how I am not really part of the motorcycle or (UK?) bicycle scene and ignorant ;) Or maybe I am getting old and grumpy. I could have walked over to my wall with the bookshelves, opened the dictionary and looked it up and then "joined in". I grok! I can speek the leet too! :D
Maybe it is a good PR strategy in order to establish a "fuck cars" counterculture.
Not just you. I have never in all my decades cycling this earth, heard the terms cager or cage to mean car driver or car?! The headline made feck all sense to me on first read.