There’s also a thing called a retarder built into lorries and other heavy vehicles so they don’t melt their brake pads.
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JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 3 weeks agoI never actually understood why retarded was used by mechanics when a car wasn’t running right “The timing on this is a bit retarded” but now I know. Thank you
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HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
surprisingly the opposite is advanced timing, protarded isn’t a word.
There is retrograde <> prograde but only Kerbal players know what it means ;)
nefonous@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not really surprising. That last part “tard” comes from the Latin tardus which basically means slow or late. The “re” particle originally just had a meaning of repetition, in this case. So being late (not for the first time? ) So changing the first part of the word wouldn’t change the meaning of it so easily. Maybe technically something like “intard” could make sense in that way (similarly as what you find in words like indomitable, impossible, ineffective etc), but it doesn’t really exist. Or if we want to make it more meme-like, tarden’t?
Protarded actually exists as a slang with completely different meaning, but that’s out of scope
Overall useless information for most, but anyway
HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Interesting. Always new stuff to be learned.