Did he start driving a Honda Accord in high school?
Trying to cram ‘ford’ into meaning ‘commit’ is a bit of a stretch, but I can get there. During the Roman Empire, Ceasar brought his army back to Rome, illegally, by crossing the Rubicon river. It was considered treason, so he had to commit himself to that act by fording the river. That’s why there’s the phrase ‘to cross the Rubicon’, which is like saying ‘once you commit, there’s no going back’.
I agree that this is more how the example sentence is being used.
Looking at the corpus of examples, it’s like the Japanese use this as the concept of ‘bridge’.
ショウ 渉
団体交渉【だんたいこうしょう】collective bargaining
渉外【しょうがい】public relations; client liaison; client relations
干渉【かんしょう】interference; intervention; meddling
I wouldn’t think of ‘ford outside’ as public relations, but I could imagine ‘making a bridge to the outside’.
Yeah, like others have said, that’s a pretty abstract usage.
to be honest, i was very familiar with the term ‘ford’ due to growing up reading lots and lots of western novels. Can’t escape that when cattle drives are in a story lol.
I was born in Hartford, so I remember learning the meaning of the name.
If you don’t know what a “hart” is, it’s another word for deer.
Ford? He’s this real frood, you know? You sass that hoopy?
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I’m pretty sure “hoopy” is supposed to be an adjective, as in “hoopy frood”
It looks like an adjective, but it’s actually a noun, I think similar to hippy.
As it turns out, it’s both:
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