Essay: Fear of Cycling

[Ninety5rpm]

For the thoughtful among us.

thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com/article-fear-of-cycling

 

[usedtobefast]

very nicely written, if a bit dry. the author is on to something that needs to be
communicated more broadly.imo.

 

[Boeing]

2 sentences in and we get this:

-most numerous vehicle on the roads????

-major means of everyday mobility????

Word choice is not his strong point

clearly no one proofed this before he submitted it

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[eljimberino]

http://blogs.denmark.dk/copenhagenize/2009/03/25/there-are-no-cyclists-in-copenhagen/

 

[Ninety5rpm]

2 sentences in and we get this:

-most numerous vehicle on the roads????

-major means of everyday mobility????

Word choice is not his strong point

clearly no one proofed this before he submitted it

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I don't understand your objection to his word choices in these two examples.

 

[Boeing]

I don't understand your objection to his word choices in these two examples.

most numerous? for real? perhaps it was translated from Indian

check that then. add sentence structure fail as well

unreadable

 

[Ninety5rpm]

most numerous? for real? perhaps it was translated from Indian

check that then. add sentence structure fail as well

unreadable

Maybe you've been reading too much Bicycling magazine.

Your objection is to "most numerous"? That's perfectly good English.
It's a succinct way of saying "having the greatest number".

For over 3 million uses of it on the web, see here:
www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22most+numerous%22

In case you think all of those are translated from Indian as well, how about 860,000 examples from books:
www.google.com/search?q=%22most+numerous%22&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1


Or 139,000 examples from scholarly works:
scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22most+numerous%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=ps

Add "sentence structure fail" to what? What sentence fails sentence structure?

Sorry to be so pedantic, but I would just hate to see someone discouraged from reading this outstanding paper due to such a dubious assessment of how it's written.