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Re: Tautology

Hugo Latymer wrote:
> 
> latymer@ctv.es
> Hugo Latymer   Spain   Zone 9
> 
> Two suggestions for helping Medit-plant mail.which will be ridiculed no
> doubt
> 
>         1. I spend my life typing "Mediterranean". Do I get any support for the
> proposal that everyone might start talking about the "Med"?
>         2. Could we talk about a Mediterranean plant when we are talking about
> something indigenous to the Mediterranean area and a Mediterranean Climate
> plant when we are referring to any plant that is cultivable in some part of
> the world that is said to have a Mediterranean Climate.
> 
>         So there would be a distinction between a Med plant and a Med Climate
> plant.
>                                                
 Hugo
When I was about ten I took a childish delight in the fact that I could
actually SPELL  Mediterranean correctly, but I must admit that after
sixty years or so this no longer excites me much and  far from
ridiculing the suggestion I would be very happy to see Med substituted
in our correspondence on this list.

I think also your distinction between a Med plant and a Med climate
plant is both elegant and useful and I would certainly go along with
their "official" adoption.

Moira

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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand
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