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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why the hell is there an "Ü" in the name? It is a California based company. No natural occurring umlauts within a 10000km radius.

And also btw:

How do you pronounce it?
The correct pronunciation is “g-oop” and not “g-up”…obey the umlaut.

No, this is totally not the correct pronunciation if you obey the umlaut... 😆

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Spanish has them, and there's plenty of Spanish in California

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are somewhat right, dots appear above a bunch of Spanish (and even some old fashioned English) words, but are not umlauts (which the company claims their ü to be), but have a different function.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 week ago

It's a U with two dots on it ehhhhh tomato/tomāto

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Pronounced as "gee-yep, we sure decided on dumb name for our company."

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

It is very hard to find something fitting, as the ü-sound doesn't seem to exist at all in the English language.
Perhaps the nearest I can think of is, if you take the "eo" sound as you speak it in "theorem", but try to make the "e" noise less high-pitched but make it sound fuller and somewhat deeper.