What is a "protracted area"?

[doodab]

So technically he could have used that word however from a syntactic point of view it just sounds wrong..

I'm not convinced. Protracted is a temporal adjective, it's wrong in the same way one wouldn't say one had been waiting for miles.

[bobspud]

I'm not convinced. Protracted is a temporal adjective, it's wrong in the same way one wouldn't say one had been waiting for miles.

Once again: If you have a small child in the back of your car and you are traveling on the M4, just approaching junction 14 traveling westbound. If that child were to say: "daddy I need a wee NOW!!!" you can make the service station at Membury in a matter of minutes. (with a heavy left foot assumed)

That child has literally waited miles for a wee Although the time is fairly short

[doodab]

Once again: If you have a small child in the back of your car and you are traveling on the M4, just approaching junction 14 traveling westbound. If that child were to say: "daddy I need a wee NOW!!!" you can make the service station at Membury in a matter of minutes. (with a heavy left foot assumed)

That child has literally waited miles for a wee Although the time is fairly short

But you wouldn't say it. Not sure where left foot comes into it, I thought we all had flash sequential gearboxes in our contractor mobiles.