Adverbal form of mobile?
Dear all, What is the adverbial form of mobile? The specific sentence I am trying to forge is "The network consisted of individual persons as nodes with mobially [sic.] mediated links connecting them." It might be that I can reformulate the sentence, but that still does not solve the problem of the adverbial form issue. I have tried mobally, mobily, etc, but nothing seems right. Further there is not much guidance on the internet. Thanks for any help. -- Rich L.
Hi Rich, I haven't heard or read the adverb of "mobile", I think it's a flat adverb where it stays in its adjective form but functions as adverb. "The network consisted of individual persons as nodes with mobile-mediated links connecting them." The phrase reads as in "mobile-mediated communication" we often find in text books. Please correct me if I misunderstood the context of your sentence. Cheers, Ivan On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:44 pm, Rich Ling <riseling@gmail.com="mailto:riseling@gmail.com">> wrote: Dear all, What is the adverbial form of mobile? The specific sentence I am trying to forge is "The network consisted of individual persons as nodes with mobially [sic.] mediated links connecting them." It might be that I can reformulate the sentence, but that still does not solve the problem of the adverbial form issue. I have tried mobally, mobily, etc, but nothing seems right. Further there is not much guidance on the internet. Thanks for any help. -- Rich L. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Hi Den 07/01/2014 16:35, skreiv Ivan Atman:
I haven't heard or read the adverb of "mobile", I think it's a flat adverb where it stays in its adjective form but functions as adverb.
I think it depends on what "mobile" really means in this context. As you felt, there seems to be no real adverb for "mobile", and the flat adverb isn't really cutting it either--you'd have to use the dash, and that changes the meaning of "mediated" in a way you perhaps don't want. There is "rovingly" and "roamingly" for the physical aspect of the network. But maybe you want to emphasize the mobility of the nodes themselves (in the sense of changeability) rather than the network (in the sense of connectivity)? - Daniel
How about a lovely hyphen? "mobile-mediated", or perhaps "mobility-mediated" :) Steve Lovaas -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rich Ling Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 2:36 AM To: AoIR mailing list Subject: [Air-L] Adverbal form of mobile? Dear all, What is the adverbial form of mobile? The specific sentence I am trying to forge is "The network consisted of individual persons as nodes with mobially [sic.] mediated links connecting them." It might be that I can reformulate the sentence, but that still does not solve the problem of the adverbial form issue. I have tried mobally, mobily, etc, but nothing seems right. Further there is not much guidance on the internet. Thanks for any help. -- Rich L. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
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