>>>>>>I thought as much - you want to distinguish between leisure and work? Well they're both still "ride", even if you're going up a 1:2 graient with a cwt of rocks in your rucksack.
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>>>>>>I suppose you ride something you sit on and drive something you sit in? OTOH, you drive a team of horses, but you're sitting "in" a carriage.
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>>>>>I'd also think so, but then how do you explain "bus ride"?
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>>>>erm, you're not in control of the bus - the DRIVER is. I should qualify the defo then as "when in control" :-)
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>>>Which is why I drive the bicycle :).
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>>No you don't, unless it wheels along under its own steam and volition, in a herd of them, and you walk alongside whacking its crossbar with a stick every so often!
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>So which is it... when you're controlling it, or when it's self powered?

No matter how it's powered - muscle or motor, yours or its - if you sit on it, and control it, you ride it.

If you sit a cow, you ride it (I guess whether it's under control or not :-), if you walk alongside it, chivvying it along, you drive it.

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>We have several verbs in Serbian for this, and the classification differs from English, but at least it's consistent (IOW, very few exceptions)
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>- voziti (to drive) - to operate a vehicle
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>- terati (to drive, as in "engine drives the vehicle") - force into motion, run, also what shepherd does to a herd when forcing it to relocate
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>- voziti se (to drive oneself) - a reflexive form of "voziti" - to be driven, i.e. a passenger, also to have a ride
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>- voziti (transitive) - if applied to a vehicle, means to operate it. Applied to a person, means "have as a passenger".
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>- jahati - to ride, but this denotes only the physical position of sitting on something with one's legs around it; one can ride a horse, donkey, (motor)bike, another person (sitting on their shoulders) and pretty much anything else that one con mount.


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