• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Could be, but that’s a very strange choice of language by the author. You scuff a tyre, you scratch or gouge a rim typically.

    • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      I mean I disagree. A gouge would be a big chuck taken out, a scratch would be a more surface level line where as a scuff would be a patch of surface level damage. I doubt I would ever use scuff in terms of a tyre either.

      That is the wonders of language though, everyone uses it differently :D

      • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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        2 hours ago

        Language is wonderful when you know how to use it. Rims are rims, tires are tires and both together are wheels.

        I’ll give you scuffs; you certainly understand what a scuff is though.

        Easy easy, lemon squeezy.

        • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 hours ago

          I mean if you want to be pedantic then;

          Wheel: “a circular object connected at the centre to a bar, used for making vehicles or parts of machines move”

          So a rim or alloy can and is a wheel with or without a tyre ;)