"pedestrian" = 'traveler on the sidewalk'

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/24/2010 06:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>I'm with Joel: my sense of the word is that "pedestrian" has long connoted
>"on the sidewalk, not in the street," though I would not be likely
>to subsume bicyclists or skateboarders under the heading of "pedestrian" in
>anything I wrote.

I must confess to not knowing the laws governing skateboarders and
rollerskaters.


>But I am  old and the world is young.

As am I, which probably explains my ignorance about these activities.

Joel

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