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"Comfort" is a real word and has the same meaning. The monkey-hear, monkey-say culture of Motocross is hitting its peak. I'm pretty sure the Suzuki commercial around 2005-2006 where RC said "I take it serious," really got the ball rolling on the masses repeating poor grammar without question.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
P.s. "Tear jerper" is acceptable.
Weege went with the 'must' this weekend. At that moment I knew all was lost.
If something has the ability to be comfortable, why exactly is "comfortability" causing you such linguistic distress? Consider this: if something can flex, we call it "flexibility"; if something can adapt, it possesses "adaptability." So when a physical object can literally possess the ability to offer comfort during a regular moto sesh with the bros, guess what... that's "comfortability."
Case closed.
pretty nuts that all these kids that have been raised since birth to sacrifice their bodies on a motorcycle, can't speak/write english as adults..... nuts their parents thought that was a good idea... not only the "my kid don't need school 'cause it cuts into practice their time!!!" ... but more so "imma raise this kid to MAKE ME MONEY by sacrificing THEIR body"....
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OP did not seem distressed to me. He has a point.
"Yea, no, for sure, dude it's like you know he's riding excellent"
"My bike broke and needs fixed"
"My tire needs replaced"
"His bike is working excellent"
Speaking of nonsense words, I sometimes get shit for saying "winningest" when I talk about moto to my non-moto friends 😅
i can't member, is the rebroadcast of Pala yestiddy or tomar?
You're treating the English language as if it's something rational.
Related to the above, I remember when my son was 2 or 3 using the word "sidewards". I told him it was "sideways". He objected by saying "but it's frontwards and backwards". Makes perfect sense, but it's wrong.
"flex" and "adapt" are verbs. add the "-able" suffix to get an adjective, and from there you get the "-ability" suffix to get a noun. three suffixes for three distinct forms of the same root word. but "comfort" in this context is a noun already. add "-able" to get "comfortable," an adjective, but add "-ability" to get...the same noun? it's redundant.
thank god you aren't my lawyer. the case would be cooked
At the drastic level of training locations track designs these guys are comfortable with every tracks obstacles.
Gary Bailey stated at every one of his schools to make your practice tracks so ridiculously hard that it made every track easy.
This time in English?
Comfortability only comes once you have preperated a wheel barrow full of mud
If you think the subtleties of the English language don't matter, let me tell you about when I helped my uncle Jack, off a horse.
Moranability keeps on spreading.
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Paging Oswald Bates . . . Oswald Bates check-in please . . . .
What do you expect from a media (in all areas, not just moto or sports) that in recent years seems to have become unaware that there is the sufix "-er" in the English language?
Everytihng is "more big, more wide, more thin" etc.
I'm truly waiting for one of these talking heads to use the phrase, "the more less of two evils". 😄
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it is english. Think about it bro or better yet go ride at a training facility so you can understand during your ambulance ride to the hospital.
Go look in the TV Guide. I left it summers in the living room.
It can create a sticky situation, no doubt.
Comfortability is a perfectly cromulent word.
Is comfortableness ok?
Fact.
I have no idea why so many have an avoision to it.
Depends on your level of comfortability when using it.
Agree with OP, comfotability, trackability, rideability, I just don't get why in the moto world there is a need to add ability to the end of words. Its a small pet peeve but nothing that really grinds my gears.
What does actually grind my gears though is "I had a 3rd place holeshot"
Holeshot is specific to only the person who was first on the start, thats it. However holeshot gets used far to often as just a generic reference to the start itself.
HAA!
You and yer fancy books. We talk how we want around huer.🙃
The moto version of 3rd place valedictorian.
It increases the comfortability of the person who didn't actually get it.
The new trend I’m hearing lately is never using the word “good” and always replacing it with “well”. There are some occurrences when “well” should be used instead of “good”. Example “I am riding really well this week.” However, it’s like some speaking coach told these guys to replace good with well in all instances. “He looks really well on the bike.” “His finishes have been well lately.”
Sorry for my rant. I hear it on nearly every moto podcast and in a ton of interviews. Never hear it anywhere else.
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