permaculture

[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

Here's a few more suffixes to burden the word with.
permaculturized
permaculturated
permacultivation
permacultivated

How about prefixes...

empermaculture
repermaculture
unpermaculture

..and then infixes (a cousin of the prefix & suffix except that it 
occurs in the middle of a word) such as

permaf-ckingculture

The Britannica say that infixes occur in Greek and Tagalog but not 
English which is unf-ckingbelievable. ;-)

Ben Martin Horst wrote:
> I don't claim to know Portuguese, but I believe the Brazilian
> permaculture network's name, "Permear" is an attempt to verbize
> "permacultura." An English equivalent might be "to perm," which is
> ugly and confusing ("No, I meant sustainable production of food, not
> hairstyling."), or "to permize," which is also ugly. I don't think
> there's enough value in creating a new verb to justify the aesthetic
> nastiness.
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 2/21/07, bwaldrop@cox.net <bwaldrop@cox.net> 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Bob Waldrop
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