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Radio
/RAY-dee-oh/
noun / adjective
The transmission of signals through electromagnetic waves, which sounds impressively scientific until you realize it's the same technology that delivers both NASA telemetry and your neighbor's terrible taste in music. In the RC context: the invisible leash between a person and the expensive thing they're about to crash.
Origin: From Latin radius, "beam, ray." Coined in the early 1900s when scientists needed a word for "we can send information through the air now" that sounded more dignified than "air magic."
Usage: "What frequency is your radio?" "2.4 GHz." "And the range?" "Further than my skill level, which is the real limiting factor."
Control
/kuhn-TROHL/
noun
The ability to direct something's behavior, or in the RC hobby, the polite fiction that you are directing the vehicle's behavior rather than merely suggesting a direction while gravity and physics make the actual decisions. Control is aspirational. What RC enthusiasts actually have is "influence with consequences."
Origin: From Medieval Latin contrarotulus, "a counter-roll" — a duplicate register used for checking. The idea of "checking" evolved into "directing," which is generous because most RC beginners can barely check where their car went after it disappeared into a bush at 60 mph.
Usage: "I have full control." [vehicle immediately flips into a pond] "I had full control."
Toys
/toyz/
noun, plural
Objects designed for play and amusement. In the RC hobby: objects designed for play and amusement that cost $800 and require a engineering degree to maintain, but are still called "toys" by spouses who don't understand why the garage looks like a NASA workshop. The word "toy" is technically accurate and simultaneously the most insulting thing you can call a 1:8 scale competition-grade short course truck.
Origin: Origin uncertain, possibly from Middle Dutch toi, "tool" or "plaything." The ambiguity between "tool" and "plaything" is perfect for the RC hobby, where every purchase is justified as "basically a tool" and used as "entirely a plaything."
Usage: "Nice toy." "It's not a toy, it's a hobby-grade vehicle." "It has a remote control." "It has a 2.4GHz FHSS transmitter." "...It's a toy with a fancy remote."

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