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Newguest Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Bicoastal urban area
Hi
An author of a book about homeopathy wrote:
The qualifcations for being a homeopath are trickier than for naturopathy
or functional medicine, so please bear with me while I explain
a bit more about how to find a homeopath. And the bottom line is this:
all three types of practitioners (functional medicine doctor, naturopath,
homeopath) are rare enough that you might not have a choice, unless
you live in a bicoastal urban area. If there is even one practitioner in
your community doing any of these three types of healing, and if that
person has a good reputation, I would go see him or her.
Does it mean that someone lives on both coasts of the US, say, in NYC and L.A?
An author of a book about homeopathy wrote:
The qualifcations for being a homeopath are trickier than for naturopathy
or functional medicine, so please bear with me while I explain
a bit more about how to find a homeopath. And the bottom line is this:
all three types of practitioners (functional medicine doctor, naturopath,
homeopath) are rare enough that you might not have a choice, unless
you live in a bicoastal urban area. If there is even one practitioner in
your community doing any of these three types of healing, and if that
person has a good reputation, I would go see him or her.
Does it mean that someone lives on both coasts of the US, say, in NYC and L.A?
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Newguest unlessyou live in a bicoastal urban area. The author completely misused the word bicoastal.
- Newguest unlessyou live in a bicoastal urban area.
- The author completely misused the word bicoastal.
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Newguestunlessyou live in a bicoastal urban area.The author completely misused the word bicoastal.
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AlpheccaStars Newguestunlessyou live in a bicoastal urban area.The author completely misused the word bicoastal.So it couldn't mean that you live either on the West Coast or the East Coast?
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In the US, the term "bicoastal" generally means "on the east and west coasts of the US," in particular, the area from NY City to Boston on the East Coast, and the area from San Francisco to San Diego on the West Coast. These areas where you'd be most likely to find practitioners of alternate medicine in the US. Here the phrase "a bicoastal urban area" would mean, for example, "either LA or NYC
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1. Relating to both the east and west coasts of the United States, as:
a. Traveling frequently between coasts as part of a business or living arrangement: "the early generation of bicoastal airline commuters" (Elizabeth Mehren).
b. Located or developed chiefly along the two coasts: a bicoastal economy.
2. Coast-to-coast: bicoastal telephone calls.
There is not one urban
a. Traveling frequently between coasts as part of a business or living arrangement: "the early generation of bicoastal airline commuters" (Elizabeth Mehren).
b. Located or developed chiefly along the two coasts: a bicoastal economy.
2. Coast-to-coast: bicoastal telephone calls.
There is not one urban
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So the author wanted to say that you would have to travel from East to West coast or that you would have to live either on the East coast or the West coast?
The definition I found:
1. bicoastal
Having a residence on both coasts of the United States, specifically in the New York City and L
The definition I found:
1. bicoastal
Having a residence on both coasts of the United States, specifically in the New York City and L
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NewguestSo the author wanted to say that you would have to travel from East to West coast or that you would have to live either on the East coast or the West coast?Probably he meant to write "live in a coastal urban area" That would cover the cities on the east coast (New York, Miami, Washington, DC) and on the west coast (Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco
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NewguestMe and thousands of other Americans are bicoastal.'I'.
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I agree with AS here, the word is misused. It should have been "coastal."
"Bicoastal" means both coasts, not either coast.
"Bicoastal" means both coasts, not either coast.
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( Don't forget that the writer is referring to an urban area as bicoastal, and not to a person. )
The use of the word 'bicoastal' is clearly a mistake. Are we really to believe that these medical and health practitioners have an incredibly strong preference for working on coasts? Hard to believe.
The use of the word 'bicoastal' is clearly a mistake. Are we really to believe that these medical and health practitioners have an incredibly strong preference for working on coasts? Hard to believe.
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