Vanity plates
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I've encountered this before. My impression is that it's a digital marketing gimmick aimed at the millennials: everyone is unique, exceptional and special (sonder meaning special in German). You might as well put "CRYSTALS" on your tag and take home your award for just showing up. (How's that for overthinking it?) lol
The idea is that we all think *we* are #1, when we're just extras in everyone else's existence. It means that when we take our ego's out of the equation, we realize the empathy that connects us all. It's saying we're all insignificant, and we'll never be able to comprehend the beauty of the human condition that is truly what brings us all together. Try to get through the full video. I think it winds up on your point for the first half, and then the 2nd half is "BUT". Yeah... it's still millennial. LOL
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In the US, there's no correlation to model year/plate. Plates often change when the car is sold and getting a "vanity" plate is easy if it isn't already on the road. So I guess people get them for vanity reasons or just a bit of fun, just like choosing different wheel trims.
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Probably just washing it would be head start
Never really understood vanity plates. They are an expensive option in this country (or at least in my State) and you see them on clapped out 20 year old Hyundai's with peeling clear coat, but the teen girlies driving them think they are just faaaaaabulous. They could have had a service and a new set of tyres but they would rather have plates that say "SXYGRL". Also the ones that just repeat badges that are already on the car are pretty special, not sure why you would do that.
Never really understood vanity plates. They are an expensive option in this country (or at least in my State) and you see them on clapped out 20 year old Hyundai's with peeling clear coat, but the teen girlies driving them think they are just faaaaaabulous. They could have had a service and a new set of tyres but they would rather have plates that say "SXYGRL". Also the ones that just repeat badges that are already on the car are pretty special, not sure why you would do that.
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I've encountered this before. My impression is that it's a digital marketing gimmick aimed at the millennials: everyone is unique, exceptional and special (sonder meaning special in German). You might as well put "CRYSTALS" on your tag and take home your award for just showing up. (How's that for overthinking it?) lol
You think you are something special?
Correct meaning but a different spelling.
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"Besonders" is an adjective. I am referring to "Sonder" as an element of a concatenation of several terms into a very descriptive noun for which German is so famous. "Ja, Ich bin ein Sonderkind".
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