Talk:car
Tea Room discussion
See Wiktionary:Tea room/2016/January#car.
Trams
Does "subway or elevated train" cover trams? Chambers 1908 says that this word covers tram carriages. Equinox ◑ 15:15, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
- Tram, subway, elevated train, even multiple unit: it's all the same sense (so currently 2 need to be combined). No one is going to distinguish the concept based on the technology. DAVilla 08:36, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Etymology 1
Isn't it related to proto-Indo-European? The Hindustani word ga:ɽI: appears to be related with the English word 'car', since /ɽ/ isn't a part of English phonology and /g/ often interchanges with /c/ across Indo-European languages.
Aursani (talk) 13:48, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
RFV discussion: May–July 2023
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Rfv-sense "a turn", as well as the etymology (see Wiktionary:Etymology_scriptorium#car). Almost certainly a misinterpretation of the source text. 蒼鳥 fawk. tell me if i did anything wrong. 22:54, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
- This fails. See discussion archived at Wiktionary:Etymology_scriptorium/2023/May#car. 蒼鳥 fawk. tell me if i did anything wrong. 03:26, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
RFV discussion: November–December 2024
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RFV-sense: ‘a deliberate misspelling of cat’. This seems unlikely, surely this is a rare and accidental misspelling? There may be some bad puns where car is used to mean cat but I can’t find them. Overlordnat1 (talk) 08:27, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- This seems very improbable. I can't find any sense of a general usage of "car" as a deliberate misspelling of "cat". Hydrangeans (talk) 19:18, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
- I believe that originally it was a misspelling of the word 'cat', which I'd consider rather probably considering the "r" key being left of the "t" key on a keyboard.
- For the sake of the discussion and to set a more proper example, I feel this video ironically enough kind of demonstrates the thought process behind the connotations between cats and cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GhBIYctoRs
- All in all, my best guess would be that it started as a misspelling, which in turn let to the jestful connotations between the two. 79.142.230.126 19:48, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Anecdotal but I've seen people use "car" to mean "cat" before. https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/193c6bn/car_instead_of_cat_all_over_insta_and_facebook/ ScribeYearling (talk) 08:46, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
- that definition can be easily found by just searching "i love cars" on tiktok/twitter Dentsinhere43 (talk) 10:49, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- OK, I’m hereby withdrawing my RFV nomination due to the non-durably attested but real uses on Reddit/Insta/FB/X(Twitter)/TikTok/YT mentioned above. Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:03, 16 December 2024 (UTC)