[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - trafficability

[Dave Swarthout]

Me either, but there it is. I wouldn't give it much chance of gathering
world wide approval as a classification term but maybe I'm wrong.


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> wrote:

> I didn't think it was a word and my old American dictionary does not have
> it. But my microprint edition of the Oxford English Dictionary does have it
> and lists it use in 1899 regarding how the streets in London were able to
> carry traffic. Certainly not a word that I, as an American English speaker,
> would have come up with.
>
> -Tod
>
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Andy Townsend wrote:
>
> >
> > On 03/01/14 16:06, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> >> I first reacted in the same way ("is it an English word at all?"). But
> then I looked it up on Wikipedia. There it is, since 2006(!), with correct
> Google translations in several other languages.
> >
> > Well, the English wikipedia is also used by people whose first language
> is American rather than English!  :)
> >
> > The online definitions for it that I've seen seem to be mostly in
> American dictionaries, with this Australian one:
> >
> > http://vro.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/soilhealth_traffic
> >
> > which actually talks about things from the ground's point of view,
> rather than the vehicle's, and so has a different meaning to the proposal.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andy
> >
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