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Air Assault All The Way.
Join Date: Mar-2004
Location: Huntersville, NC (near Charlotte)
Country: USA
Posts: 1,732
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Originally Posted by rockm
Attila,
I think what's getting to you isn't the word "bonsai," it's education. People are generally ignorant about alot of stuff. Changing the terminology isn't going to make them any quicker on the uptake.
They know what "bonsai" is, basically, they just have trouble understanding HOW it's done.
Those are two separate issues. A homespun name isn't going to get them to understand the how to's of bonsai.
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What's the old saying?
"Never underestimate the stupidity of man".
I'd say that over half the people who don't practice bonsai really do think "bonsai" is a separate species of tree. It's mostly an innocent ignorance of the facts, but there are those "special" ones....... 
John
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