"Jim Lewis" wrote in message
news:001101c37b97$e5b18380$72112cc7@pavilion...

Of course, then there's Humpty Dumpty . . . "When _I_ use a
word,
it means just what I choose it to mean --neither more nor
less."

But... When _I_ say "yamadori", do _you_ know what I mean? ;-)

I know what most people _probably_ DON'T mean, and that is
literally "collected in the mountains."

The REAL question here, of course, is why are we English-,
French-, German-, Swahili-speaking growers of artistic small
trees in pots bothering to use the term "yamadori" when
"collected" does as well (or better) and in most cases is much
more accurate.

The same goes for "nebari" and "shohin" and a whole host of other
look-what-I-know terms. There are legitimate and very clear
English (or other) equivalents.

And now, answering myself, I note that it is that for most of
those terms, the Japanese term is the same to all
speakers-of-other-languages . . . so I'll have to go back to my
first premise that (only?) "yamadori" is probably a useless term.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Who thinks
that some of us are trying to out Japanese the Japanese.

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