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The whole moral panic over electric/motorized scooters/kickboards aside, who coined the term "G-cooter" to refer to them? Many students now seem to think it's the standard English term and are surprised when I tell them it isn't, and that they should avoid using it in English.On twitter.com
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When they ask why, I suggest they Google, "What does cooter mean?" (It's dated slang, but lots of people remember the word, and, well... yeah, that's why I laughed aloud when I first heard someone say "riding G-cooters.") Mostly they laugh out loud in surprise when googling it.Permalink On twitter.com
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Oh, and if you're not in Korea, I mean these things: voromotors.com/products/emove-cruiser They've grown popular and despite a small number of incidents the government is removing some restrictions on their use... so an inevitable moral panic about their supposed dangers has followed.Permalink On twitter.com
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It can be confusing to call these "electric scooters" here because Korea already has lots of scooters of that other kind, especially used for food delivery: youtube.com/watch?v=58vJr4GniIQ (But some media outlets do call them electric scooters here anyway.)Permalink On twitter.com