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- From: "florar" <florar@terra.com.br>
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] (no subject)
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:21:56 -0300
We have the same issue in Portugues
At a recent meeting of the PERMEAR Network (Brasil) we discussed whether we
are "permacultistas" or "permacultores" - we decided on the shorter version,
is easy to pronounce, and apparently more 'portugues"!!!
Skye
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Data:Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:34:45 -0400
Assunto:Re: [permaculture] (no subject)
> Keith Johnson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> So what is the adjectival form of permaculture? permaculturely or
> permaculturally?
> I like the former.
>
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Re: [permaculture] (no subject),
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