Interesting bike parking

[accordioneur]

“Maven” is one of those Yiddish words that’s entered American English vernacular. If you were old, as I am, you might remember the Vita Herring “Herring Maven” ads from eons ago.

[Judd]

Today I learned that maven is a Yiddish word.

[lordofthemark]

@Judd 148588 wrote:

Today I learned that maven is a Yiddish word.

From the Hebrew root “to understand” meaning “one who understands”

Though I have always understood it in Yiddish and Yinglish to mean “expert” or even “know it all”. Never seen it used to mean “wise, anarchic revolutionary” before, but language shifts, I guess.

[Judd]

It’s definitely been co-opted to have a much more positive connotation of a smart person that leads revolutionary change which is typically the context I see it in.

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[lordofthemark]

@Judd 148601 wrote:

It’s definitely been co-opted to have a much more positive connotation of a smart person that leads revolutionary change which is typically the context I see it in.

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Really? I would expect a “bike maven” to be someone who, like some of the folks here, can tell you EXACTLY why your bike is making that funny sound, and maybe even tell you in what year the part that is causing the problem was invented.

Not someone who is campaigning for a radical new kind of bike that doesn’t need the traditional part.

I will have to check this out with my other millennial contacts.

[ShawnoftheDread]

“Slam the breaks”

I’m not sure I’d use this banner to parse word usage.

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