We don't have to stick to the term "trafficability". What would be a
good alternative?
- usability
- passable
- passability (there is an abandoned proposal suggesting this term)
- usable_if
- ???
Cheers,
BGNO
2014/1/3 Dave Swarthout wrote:
> 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 <t...@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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