Date:  Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:55:06 +0100

From:  "E.W. Schneider" <Edgar.Schneider[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SPRACHLIT.UNI-REGENSBURG.DE>

Subject: warp speed?



Here's one for the younger generation amongst you folks out there.

Snowboarders (and mountainbikers, I'm told) use the expression "warp

speed" for "high speed". This is said to be a very recent expression;

is it really? Does anybody have a reasonable idea as to an

explanation, and the precise semantics, of this?

Thanks for any responses!

Edgar





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University of Regensburg, Institut fuer Anglistik

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