A question about Americans

[Roxinos]

The full name is "taxicab," Star.

[Starrik]

Yeah, but here they just have TAXI written on them. Weird. Anyone know the origin of the word?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

google most likely

[bad company]

Maybe it mean that it cost you more money like taxes, which sounds similar to Taxi? And yeah I will either call a taxi or wait at the taxi rank

[randomh3r0]

Yeah, but here they just have TAXI written on them. Weird. Anyone know the origin of the word?

Harry Nathaniel Allen of The New York Taxicab Co., who imported the first 600 gas-powered New York taxicabs from France, coined the word "taxicab" as a contraction of "taximeter cabriolet". "Taximeter" is an adaptation of the French word taximètre, which is a derivation of the German word taxameter, coined from Medieval Latin taxa, which means tax /charge, together with meter from the Greek metron (μέτρον) meaning measure.^[1] A "cabriolet" is a type of horse-drawn carriage, from the French word "cabrioler" ("leap, caper"), from Italian "capriolare" ("to jump"), from Latin "capreolus" ("roebuck", "wild goat").

 

Nothing like defining a word and seeing "wild goat" in quotation marks.

[Alaksuleiel]

thank you randomh3ro, most informative :)

[cosmicpanda]

Do I get points?

[bad company]

For what?

[Nynaeve]

For farting rainbows?

 

 

Nyn

[bad company]

That is assumed to be bad so I don't see why

[Nynaeve]

I guess it's not so bad for people who like rainbows.

 

 

 

Nyn

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

.... what color would it burn?

[Nynaeve]

That is an excellent question. The panda should know.

 

 

 

Nyn

[bad company]

Wouldn't it burn the colour of the spectrum it doesn't absorb

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it would burn the color of the elements of which its composed i think

[bad company]

What if it is composed of the element of suprise

[cosmicpanda]

Cmon chaps, it's burning already. What's the point of being a cosmicpanda if you can't fly around with burning ribbons of rainbows trailing you?

[bad company]

Do they sound like classical music

[Nynaeve]

Probably does. The panda has a tiny bit of class.

 

 

 

Nyn

[Moon Sedai]

Cmon chaps, it's burning already. What's the point of being a cosmicpanda if you can't fly around with burning ribbons of rainbows trailing you?

10 points. awesome.

[ThorkinBarrimore]

Just a thought....would there be a pot of gold at the end? :P

[LilyElizabeth]

There's probably a pot of something, but I doubt it's gold. Knowing Pandy, it's probably sheet music or something.

[ThorkinBarrimore]

Great Lord, I do hope so...for our sake at least.

[Moon Sedai]

I don't think I want to see what's in the pot at the end of a rainbow coming out of Panda's butt.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

something like ambergris perhaps