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Re: [compost_tea] CT Name
Your getting bogged down in the nomenclature. Aerobic is best because it is
opposite of anaerobic. There is no opposite of aerotic, which sounds too
much like neurotic. We have a couple of standards down here in Texas. If it
ain't broke, don't fix it. And there's no better tea than brewed tea. It's
always good to check your bases, but this is one base that is working just
fine, fits the scientific nomenclature, and does not need fiddlin' with.
As for a term to describe the machine, I have been describing aerobically
active compost tea to people at my nursery for over two years. No matter how
you phrase it, you still have to explain the concept. So if we're going to
have explain it to the masses, do we really need a second set of
nomenclature to "pride ourselves" on our technospeak, and give ourselves one
more thing to try to get the masses to understand?
I just purchased a new 22 gal. Earth Tea Brewer and I can't wait to tell
people all about my aerobically active compost tea that I will be making
with my new compost tea brewer. A mouthful? Yep, but not near the mouthful
that it will take to tell them why and how it works.
Steve Bridges
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Leonard" <kirk@oregonatural.com>
To: "Compost Tea Group" <compost_tea@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: [compost_tea] CT Name
> If we're serious about this, Doc E needs to weigh in. She knows where
> "brewed tea" originated and has a good story, I'm sure, and has to be
> comfortable with a change, no matter what. I'm a little surprised no
makers
> besides Bob and Laura have spoken up.
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> "Aerobic" is good; "Aerotic" I would like to see, too. I expect we'll
> always talk about "aerobic tea." Only problem with aerobic, as Judi, Karl
> and Bob suggest, is the lack of a noun to describe the machine. "Aerate"
> has more appropriate forms, like "aerator", for which there is no "aerobe"
> equivalent, unless you want to try and talk about an "aerobor" or an
> "aerobator"? An "aerobosizer?" I don't think so... new, strange words
are
> worse than inaccurate ones, imo.
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> I like "flume" and "tumbler" too, but I think the explanation would have
to
> be overly long and potentially even more confusing.
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> -- Kirk
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