Can't wait for these things to vanish into obscurity, people look like utter twats using them.
can we stop calling them hoverboards
they dont HOVER
[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;50656700]can we stop calling them hoverboards
they dont HOVER[/QUOTE]
can we stop calling amazon amazon, its clearly not a female warrior or parrot
[QUOTE=Map in a box;50656875]can we stop calling amazon amazon, its clearly not a female warrior or parrot[/QUOTE]
Can we stop calling pickaxe's pickaxe's, they don't help you pick out an Axe brand deodorant or body spray..
[QUOTE=Map in a box;50656875]can we stop calling amazon amazon, its clearly not a female warrior or parrot[/QUOTE]
But you clearly aren't a map in a box.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;50656875]can we stop calling amazon amazon, its clearly not a female warrior or parrot[/QUOTE]
Amazon is a company name, hoverboard is a generic name.
It's more like calling all tablet computers "ebook readers".
[QUOTE=Murkrow;50657442]Amazon is a company name, hoverboard is a generic name.
It's more like calling all tablet computers "ebook readers".[/QUOTE]
And hoverboards are what companies call the self balancing scooters as a model name
Well they were just novelty lighters with wheels anyway
[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;50656700]can we stop calling them hoverboards
they dont HOVER[/QUOTE]
and jellyfish aren't actually fish but the world keeps turning
this is the compromise we had to make when scientists first discovered [i]Hoverboard scooterus[/i] in 2015
[QUOTE=Map in a box;50656875]can we stop calling amazon amazon, its clearly not a female warrior or parrot[/QUOTE]
I think it's more an issue that hoverboard already referred to a very similar existing (albeit science fiction) thing popularized by a popular movie series.
The Amazon rainforest and Amazon the online store are vastly different contexts; when someone uses Amazon in a sentence, it's unlikely someone would be confused as to which Amazon that person is referring to due to the context of the sentence.
When you're talking about a board you ride on, the use of hoverboard to refer to both a board which literally hovers (the original term, I might add) and a board which is propelled by a motor and has wheels it rests on, you have two very similar (but also distinct in a key way) things that can be far more easily confused based upon context.
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[QUOTE=Swiket;50657823]and jellyfish aren't actually fish but the world keeps turning
this is the compromise we had to make when scientists first discovered [i]Hoverboard scooterus[/i] in 2015[/QUOTE]
If they were called "wheeled hoverboards" that argument would hold more weight; the jelly (or shell or what not) prefix distinguishes it.
If someone says "He was riding a hoverboard", there's no context clue built into the name to indicate which one that person is talking about. Versus "I'm going to eat a jellyfish" clearly distinguishes it from a proper fish.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50658609]But it's misleading to a point of naming a car "Helicopter"[/QUOTE]
I believe they call them hoverboards because you feel like you are hovering while using it.
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