Timeline for Meaning of backpacking as in "go backpacking"? [closed]
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| Aug 12, 2012 at 15:03 | history | closed |
FumbleFingers J.R. tchrist♦ James Waldby - jwpat7 Matt E. Эллен |
general reference | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 14:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/234663424167141377 | ||
| Aug 12, 2012 at 14:45 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | Depending on your definition it might not be around the world; but Karl Bushby's planned route from Patagonia to England is about as close to a round the world hike as possible. He made it into Siberia before visa problems forced an end to his trip. odysseyxxi.com | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 14:33 | comment | added | its_me | @XavierVidalHernández It's from my grammar text book, not something I made up. :) | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 14:29 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Xavier: I don't know if you're a native English speaker, but I have to say if you are, I find it odd that you should be "uncomfortable" with such a mundane word as backpacking. Which isn't a "metaphoric" usage in any case, so far as I'm concerned. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 14:28 | comment | added | J.R. | @Xavier: I've gone backpacking several times, and I can't find anything else wrong with the sentence. (Obviously, I couldn't backpack 'round the world' in one trip, but if I went backpacking once in Europe, once in South America, and once in New Zealand, that would suffice as "backpacking round the world," at least in my book). | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 14:20 | answer | added | narengi | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 14:18 | comment | added | Elberich Schneider | @Fumble I'm unconfortable with such a word (backpacking) but, in my opinion, you are unable to address many issues such as metaphor or associative meanings! | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 14:08 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | General Reference - see Wikipedia's article on backpacking. @Xavier - there's nothing grammatically or semantically questionable about OP's example - it's completely natural phrasing with a clear meaning. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 14:05 | comment | added | Elberich Schneider | I think the sentence possibly fails only on semantic grounds, and in the wrong context, doesn't even fail at all, but 'backpacking' works! | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 13:28 | vote | accept | its_me | ||
| Aug 12, 2012 at 13:20 | answer | added | Joel Brown | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 13:13 | history | asked | its_me | CC BY-SA 3.0 |