Such things are possibly influenced by things like Latin. English (generally) has different written forms for noun and verb forms, which kind of reflect spoken language (though none of this is set in pudding, let alone stone).

There’s a great podcast “The History of English” By Kevin Stroud, that discusses such things.

In my best Dude voice: “Like, hey man, don’t be prescriptive about what people think of as porn!”

Also, Rule 34! 😆

I imagine the manufacturers and their lawyers are why we don’t have greater access to OBDII and CANBUS info.

There’s a number of things I’d love to control via CANBUS, like the remote start system, climate control, etc.

Fucking Jeep/Chrysler. Like who keeps buying this garbage?

If someone gave me one, I’d sell it before it had a chance of showing a CEL.

Jeep/Chrysler history: an amalgamation of numerous car companies since the 1950’s, so all sorts of competing design approaches, conflicting engineering, and dead weight.

And I’d love to own a Studebaker Hawk (which was Kaiser before Studebaker).

That’s less “marketing” than location. Location, location, location.

It’s been important since the beginning of flight as a waypoint, and is far enough north to provide security coverage for the Atlantic.