• @[email protected]
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    06 months ago

    I’ve personally only heard “honking the horn” (like as in “honk if you’re horny”) here in the US. In fact personally when I read “beep” I think of sharp, bright, high-pitched, electronic sounds, like that are so common inside of modern cars, but sure I guess I can see where you got confused.

    By this same grace though, I wouldn’t call someone a misleading dick over onomatopoeia. If you tell me what word op should’ve used I’ll tell you why your choice is ambiguous too

    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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      16 months ago

      “new bill requires vehicles to alert their drivers when…etc”

      notice the lack of type of notification? and specifying who is notifying whom? It isn’t difficult to not be a misleading dick.

    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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      16 months ago

      next you’re going to tell me that people in the USA don’t have blinkers to indicate proposed turning direction.

      Heh. blinkers.

      It’s like going to the bathroom in a shopping centre. Like there’s actually a bathroom and not just a xitter or toilet.