Timeline for What is the meaning of truck-worthy packing?
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| Feb 18, 2015 at 23:33 | comment | added | Ben Kovitz | @WhatRoughBeast That sounds worthy of an answer, too! | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 22:43 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | @BenKovitz - speaking as a native, I'm aware of the terms seaworthy and airworthy. These apply, as you might guess, to ships and aircraft, and in each case mean that the vehicle is suitable for use. It doesn't mean that they are ready for use, since (for instance) each might need refueling, but be otherwise in good shape. With these as examples, "truckworthy" is a pretty obvious construction. | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 21:21 | comment | added | Stephie | @BenKovitz: at 22:15 local time! After getting up at 4:30? If I can still write a coherent sentence ^_^ | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 21:18 | comment | added | Ben Kovitz | I think that is worthy of being included in your answer. :) | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 20:05 | comment | added | Stephie | Even as non-native speaker (I'm German), sometimes it's hard to say why you know. But I'll try to give my line of reasoning: Worthy has not only a sense of (monetary) value, but of fitness, appropriateness, being a good match... From there, truckworthy could only be worth for a truck (not worth a truck). Or, very sloppyly "good for transportation on a truck". Context is crucial, as usual. The examples in my answer are just common knowledge. If I hadn't found the dictionary entry (in <30 seconds & after your comment), I might have tried to put this line of thought into something readable. | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 19:03 | comment | added | Ben Kovitz | Did you find the definition of -worthy before or after you wrote your original answer? (I'm interested in how you actually figured it out, not whether you can find justification in a dictionary.) | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 18:40 | comment | added | Stephie | @BenKovitz: I even found a dictionary definition (tucked in with a load of others), much to my surprise.... Was this edit what you had in mind? | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 18:38 | history | edited | Stephie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
As requested: the reasoning behind my answer.
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| Feb 18, 2015 at 18:16 | comment | added | Ben Kovitz | Well done! I just googled and this was the only page that came up! Could you add a little explanation of how you figured out the meaning of this phrase? That might shed some more general light on how a fluent speaker makes sense of unfamiliar phrases (as suggested by FumbleFingers' post here and, IMO, making the most interesting and useful answers). | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 17:37 | history | answered | Stephie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |