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VGPolyglot on 02 May 2017
Hynad said:
VGPolyglot said:

I think the term retarded comes from the French word retard, which means slow.

Retard means "lag", "delay", or "lateness", not slow. Slow would be "lent" in french.

Yeah, I addressed that in one of my later posts:

VGPolyglot said:
COKTOE said:

Yeah, there's a sign on the highway near me that mentions not to use "Retarder Brakes". So slow makes sense.

Actually, now that I think about it the translation may be closer to late, as in they develop later on than most people do? However, I'm not entirely sure of the etymology.