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CAFE regs made USian hugecars relatively profitable, and car makers got USians to demand them via savvy marketing. That's what I reckon anyway.
by 0_____0 6mo ago
CAFE regs made USian hugecars relatively profitable, and car makers got USians to demand them via savvy marketing. That's what I reckon anyway.
- rudhdb773b 6mo agoThe word "American" already unambiguously describes people of the USA. You don't need to make up a new word.
- 0_____0 6mo ago1. Synonyms exist in language. 2. You're on a site with a bunch of programmers who regularly use weird words for stuff that already has a name. Reading through HN is wading through a swamp of made up names and tech neologisms, you're just used to it already. I once told a software guy that our team's SWEs had migrated away from React and Node to Stork.JS and Blackadder. He nodded like that meant anything. 3. I like it and you can't stop me.
- mbernstein 6mo agoStork.JS is a really well written piece of software, though.
- 0_____0 6mo agodevs have really got to start using NSA style naming conventions where they use the Joycean compound with random stuff that sounds cool e.g. BANNANADAIQUIRI or FOXACID.
- defrost 6mo agoThe word "American" has many sub entries in the Oxford English Dictionary - not all of those meanings are "citizen of the USofA". So much for unambiguous.
- rudhdb773b 6mo agoHave you ever actually heard it used in conversation or writing where the speaker's intention was a meaning that included people outside of the USA? I haven't.
- defrost 6mo agoI have, yes. I note, also, that you didn't ask if anyone > " heard it used in conversation or writing where the speaker's intention was a meaning that included people outside of America? " which further explans why non-USAians like myself adopted the practice decades past of prefering clarity for precision.