> 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?
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermobility_(travel)
>>> "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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