permaculture

[Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:07:19 -0600, you wrote:

>Permaculture is generally used as a noun.  But in english, we are always 
>turning nouns into verbs, and I was wondering how people felt about using 
>permaculture as a verb.

People murder other people a lot too, but that doesn't make it
desirable.... <g>


>e.g. "Permaculture that planet!"  (actually, that would be a command 
>imperative.)
>
>or "you too can permaculture your yard."
>
>Adjective
>
>The "Permacultured Kitchen"
>
>Adverb
>
>I would like to work permaculturally for several years.
>
>I am curious as to other's thoughts on this.  Does this vocal evolution 
>detract from understanding permaculture as a whole systems approach to 
>design?
>

It's sufficiently ugly that I winced when I read it....Yuck.  

Yes, I think it would detract from the whole system approach concept.

Pat
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