People walking between the bus stop (outside the picture) and the building (on the right) don’t like taking the long route around this huge green circle. It was pretty obvious that this would happen sooner or later.
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Desire Paths
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Desire paths Desire paths can be paths created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The paths usually represent the shortest or most easily navigated routes between origins and destinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
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Why isn't this comm called "desired paths?" Sounds really weird with the wrong tense.
Because it comes from "paths of desire", I think. Sort of like "beauty mark" is not "beautifying mark": because it comes from "mark of beauty".
These paths are called “desire paths”— paths that desire follows.
Weird. The grammatically correct way is "desired path."
"Desire path" is a valid noun phrase where "desire" functions as an attributive noun modifying "path." This construction is grammatically correct in English.
The "grammatically correct" way is always whatever way is already in widespread use. Also, I'd say this is a noun adjunct, so not all that uncommon.
Nope "desire path" is a perfectly grammatically correct way of saying "path of desire".