New words/vocab on these fora, boards..

[Cyril Haearn]

Primp
To clean and groom a cycle offered for sale in the hope of making more money

[661-Pete]

"Fora".

OK not a new word as such, but one I don't think I used to hear, much, until the phenomenon of the 'internet forum' sprang into existence in the early 2000's.

I don't like it. I can't stop people using it, but to me it sounds an ugly piece of over-Latinised pedantry. I always say "forums" which is a perfectly acceptable English plural.

[nirakaro]

+1. Fora is the recommended usage if you're talking about a number of ancient Roman public squares. Otherwise forums.

[Cyril Haearn]

Pringle
Describes a buckled wheel rim that resembles a salty snack crisp

[mercalia]

Doing a (Mrs) May? has any one coined that yet to mean doing some thing with an effect in mind and getting the opposite? in her case calling an election and getting a wrose result than she had already.

[[XAP]Bob]

Not from this forum, but I prefer faecebook...

[thirdcrank]

+1. Fora is the recommended usage if you're talking about a number of ancient Roman public squares. Otherwise forums.
(My emphasis)

Getting rusty here and I was never much good in the first place but shouldn't that be foris?

[661-Pete]

+1. Fora is the recommended usage if you're talking about a number of ancient Roman public squares. Otherwise forums.
(My emphasis)

Getting rusty here and I was never much good in the first place but shouldn't that be foris?

Only in the dative or ablative. Forum is a second-declension neuter noun. It goes:
Forum, forum, forum, fori, foro, foro; Fora, fora, fora, fororum, foris, foris.

[thirdcrank]

But if we are talking about them, I'd presume it would be the ablative de foris

( A roundabout way of hinting that the English is, or ought to be, forum/ forums in any context. )

[nirakaro]

Et qui rit des curés d'Oc?/De Meuse raines, houp! de cloques./De quelles loques ce turque coin./Et ne d'anes ni rennes,/Ecuries des curés d'Oc.

Doubtless you also know -
Un petit d'un petit s'etonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit a degres te fallent...
etc.?

[Cyril Haearn]

UpWrong: not a bent
Bent = DownRight

[661-Pete]

UpWrong: not a bent
Bent = DownRight

I complained once about that word. Surely both are 'right'?

[Cyril Haearn]

UpWrong: not a bent
Bent = DownRight

I complained once about that word. Surely both are 'right'?

Yes yes both are valid and good
But I do remember the *frisson* of excitement I felt when I understood *UpWrong*
It is fun to tease non-cyclists with our special words (in a friendly way)

[[XAP]Bob]

UpWrong: not a bent
Bent = DownRight

I complained once about that word. Surely both are 'right'?

It's humour - clearly the rover safety bicycle is an acceptable form of transport, but if getting lower (than an ordinary) was a safety improvement, then how much more is getting lower still

[661-Pete]

It's humour - clearly the rover safety bicycle is an acceptable form of transport, but if getting lower (than an ordinary) was a safety improvement, then how much more is getting lower still

False analogy. In the days of the Ordinary, the only competing road transport was horse-and-cart. And the main danger was that of falling off from a height!

Nowadays, although I see very few 'bent riders in my area, those I have come across appear to be less visible to motorists than uprights, especially if they choose to 'filter' (something a 'bent rider had best avoid).

The main advantage of a 'bent, in my view, is that it opens up cycling to those who cannot ride, or feel uncomfortable riding, an upright.

(*ducks and waits for flak to fly*)