Good article. This bugged me, though: > The way people in the West have started to look down on walking is detectable in the language. "When people say someth

Good article. This bugged me, though: > The way people in the West have started to look down on walking is detectable in the language. "When people say something is pedestrian they mean flat, limited in scope," says Solnit. ...Seeing as how "pedestrian" comes from Latin pedester, which had the same two meanings ("on foot" or "dull and ordinary"). The Romans contrasted it with the more exciting equester ("on horseback").