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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] (no subject)
  • Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:17:11 -0400

Kai wrote a while back about one of his peeves in regard to pluralizing acronyms. I'd like to add another.
We are PERMACULTURISTS NOT PERMACULTURALISTS. The latter is redundant, cumbersome, and one syllable longer than necessary. Its already a long word. We might as well say permaculturistists. We can speak of matters permacultural but we practice permaculture, and do things permaculturally. Perhaps we should rename the mag the Permacultural Activist.
There. I've said it. Thank you for your patience and tolerance.
Keith


Ben Martin Horst wrote:
While of interest to permaculturalists for obvious reasons, I have
seen few human-built structures that can compare with the terraces on
simple aesthetic grounds.
Ben
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Keith Johnson
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 5516
Bloomington, IN 47408
(812) 335-0383
http://www.permacultureactivist.net
also Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting



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