Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: DougDoug Date: Aug 25, 2008 22:57
On 25 Aug, 19:18, John Wright pegasus.f2s.com> wrote:> Doug wrote:
>> On 24 Aug, 10:36, "Knight Of The Road" hotmail.com>
>> wrote:>>> "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote>
>>> Strangely enough, I've searched eight online dictionaries and cannot find
>>> one which describes "Hypermobility" as anything other than a medical
>>> condition. Wikipedia's page athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermobility
>>> makes no mention of it having any meaning related to motorised travel. >
>> Is your knowledge so limited that you are unaware of words having
>> multiple meanings? Or is it that you are so embroiled in the semantics
>> of pro-car propaganda on this newsgroup you can't see the wood for the
>> trees?
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>> "Hypermobility is a term coined by Professor John Adams of University
>> College, London,
>
> I.e. purloined after a definition already existed.
>
'Hyper' is a common prefix from the Greek 'huper'.
'Mobility' is a common word from the Latin 'mobilis'.
Both have a very long history. 'Hyper', as a prefix, may legitimately
be attached to many words, hence 'hypermobility'.
How about 'Hypercarphilia' to describe the obsession of the motorists
who dominate this transport newsgroup?
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