Comment on Anon likes bikes

• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or a little basket in the bike

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• JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am an ESL teacher who is at war with the word rucksack. It is a gnomic word that blocks understanding. Backpack, a pack for the back. Is that a back pack? Why yes it is Ming! It is a bag on someone’s back! Is that a rucksack teacher? Fucked if I know, I have never seen a ruck nor would I know what kind of sack I would need for it.

  Yes you are right, this prson should get a rucksack.

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  • Faresh@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A rucksack is a Sack on someone’s Rücken.

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    • JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what I get for refusing to google the etymology of things.

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