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Where's the confidence level in the company?

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Dual Grenny Guy said:
but over in your parts of the world it means something TOTALLY different. I love those type of idiosyncrasies. 😁
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Aliens do find Americanisms peculiar 😉
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Dual Grenny Guy said:
I don’t disagree at all, but at the same time, I think it sounds so cool because it is grammatically incorrect. In the US we have many sayings/phrases that are GI but sound great!! What’s crazy is over here holding up two fingers like a “V” with the palm facing inward is saying peace, but over in your parts of the world it means something TOTALLY different. I love those type of idiosyncrasies. 😁
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What I do find interesting (sort of IG related) is the horse drawn vehicle terms that are now used for cars.
Dashboard, literally a wooden board that stopped dash (mud and stones) hitting the passengers.
Trunk, somewhere you strapped your trunk (or your dirty boots for us Brits)
Fifth wheel was the steering mechanism pivot on a cart.
Buggy was an open wheeled cart for carrying people.
Cabriolet, coupe, sedan, station wagon, coach were all horse drawn body styles.
Estate car was a horse drawn vehicle specifically designed to move people an luggage to the grand house on an estate.
Tire was the iron ring around the wooden rim, no rubber!
Many more.
 
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landmannnn said:
What I do find interesting (sort of IG related) is the horse drawn vehicle terms that are now used for cars.
Dashboard, literally a wooden board that stopped dash (mud and stones) hitting the passengers.
Trunk, somewhere you strapped your trunk (or your dirty boots for us Brits)
Fifth wheel was the steering mechanism pivot on a cart.
Buggy was an open wheeled cart for carrying people.
Cabriolet, coupe, sedan, station wagon, coach were all horse drawn body styles.
Estate car was a horse drawn vehicle specifically designed to move people an luggage to the grand house on an estate.
Tire was the iron ring around the wooden rim, no rubber!
Many more.
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And for some strange reason Americans don't use the term "caravan".
 
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Tazzieman said:
And for some strange reason Americans don't use the term "caravan".
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We do, but usually as a description for a traveling group, or as a verb (“we’re going to caravan out to the Badlands”). I’m trying to remember when I last heard it as a description for a single vehicle. We usually use “van,” or “camper van,” or “trailer,” or “RV.”
 
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Stu_Barnes said:
We did exactly that back in February of this year. They took all the constructive feedback from this site and presented it to the people that can make the required changes with a stroke of the pen.

We have already seen the tow software update rolled out to address the issues found on the NA spec vehicles earlier this year. So if they want to, they can address the ‘niggles’ or even deal breakers for some on the software side of things relatively quickly. The question is do they want to allocate resources to that? There’s a concerted drive to take the Grenadier upmarket right now, without these fixes then I’m hot too hopeful of the success of that idea.

The main thing for me is that INEOS does not forget its core market base, the die hards have bought theirs, where do the next tranche of customers come from? People are cross shopping this vehicle with all sorts of things, quite a few of my friends love the Grenadier but it’s just too annoying to dive as a daily for them, and thats on one without any appreciable issues apart from a terrible HVAC system.
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What would you guess the Factory Date would be that took care of most issues?
 
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CrazyOldMan said:
We usually use “van,” or “camper van,” or “trailer,” or “RV.”
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"Trailer" in my country conjures up trips to the tip (dump to you) and loads of soil/gravel/manure/large appliances/various bikes .
"Caravan" conjures up images of the Silk Road in Marco Polo times.
Well it does to me 😊
 
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Tazzieman said:
And for some strange reason Americans don't use the term "caravan".
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When Canadians say "caravan", we typically mean a procession of vehicles travelling together. Noun or verb. For groups of cars or trucks or RVs.

So to avoid ambiguity (e.g. "the caravan has arrived"), we stick with "trailer" or "travel trailer" or "van" or "RV" to refer to the individual camping vehicles themselves. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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Trialmaster said:
You ex-British colonials certainly know how to f**k-up the ENGLISH language.
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Yeah, there are a lot of reasons we split. 🤪 For starters, you “English” are too precious about “your” language, which is one of the most borrowed and stolen languages in the first place! 🤣
 
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As for the non-rhotic thing
 
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CrazyOldMan said:
I think it’s tongue in cheek - not a serious motto (or if so, then seriously unserious). The phrase “veni, vidi, vici “ (I came, I saw, I conquered) is attributed to Julius Caesar. Personally, I use it as a definitive rebuttal for those who advocate for the “classical” pronunciation of Latin, as opposed to the more familiar ecclesiastical pronunciation. It is simply impossible that Caesar ever said “wenny weedy weeky” - didn’t happen. Unless, of course, he “had a fwend in Wome” - in which case it’s an argument for a speech impediment.
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😂 Naughtius Maximus you are. Although as I recall the fwend in Wome had a better name…
 
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