Definitions
Pedestrian:
adj : lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn: prosaic, prosy, earthbound]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
Pedestrian:
Undistinguished; ordinary: pedestrian prose. See Synonyms at dull.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Maybe this explains a lot. If you are “pedestrian” you are dull, a dull traveler? Why would anyone want to be a dull traveler? This is just plain bad marketing.
Does anyone know the root to how this word became to mean both “dull” and “ foot traveler”?
I find this interesting, what are your thoughts? What could we call it? Instead of Pedestrian Paths maybe we call them “Environmental Paths”? Instead of peds we call walkers and bikers H.E.F.’s (Humans of Environmental Friendliness).
I can see it now; the sign reads “NO CARS IN THE HEF LANE”
Pedestrian:
adj : lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn: prosaic, prosy, earthbound]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
Pedestrian:
Undistinguished; ordinary: pedestrian prose. See Synonyms at dull.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Maybe this explains a lot. If you are “pedestrian” you are dull, a dull traveler? Why would anyone want to be a dull traveler? This is just plain bad marketing.
Does anyone know the root to how this word became to mean both “dull” and “ foot traveler”?
I find this interesting, what are your thoughts? What could we call it? Instead of Pedestrian Paths maybe we call them “Environmental Paths”? Instead of peds we call walkers and bikers H.E.F.’s (Humans of Environmental Friendliness).
I can see it now; the sign reads “NO CARS IN THE HEF LANE”
