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Terminology is a big deal for me. Back in the day Dawson and I debated what to call AT. We all call it AT now, but we have a very serious discussion about whether we should follow Chouinard's lead and promote the term randonnee (that's with 3 n's and 2 e's, puhleeez!). Quickly we agreed the rando term was just another French word and we didn't need to be trying to educate Amerikans about two French words - Couloir was bad enough.
Then the question was, would we adopt the acronym as the dominant term, or always spell it out? A.T. or alpine touring? We opted for the acronym. Luckily, the masses followed our lead, except it probably is a really suckie term for search engine optimization. Who cares.
But the name for this place, this particular part of the BC Talk forum, the general meeting hall has me stumped. Time to ask my esteemed peers and the peanuts in the gallery. You can believe you are whichever one you want.
What should we call this forum? I even considered Brawlroom, but figured that would be inviting too much trouble from the get go. I just changed it to "le Chronicle du Couloir," in memory of the original backcountry rag. I'm inclined to call it Mitch's Bar. Afterall, most everyone here at this point in time is a refugee from there. Much of the experiences and memories from there are, at this point, fondly remembered. It was a brawlroom itself at times, a juvvy moshpit at others, but there were some sages who passed through and dropped some pearls of wisdom too.
I'm putting 'er up for a vote, those two plus a few others and I welcome your suggestions.
Then the question was, would we adopt the acronym as the dominant term, or always spell it out? A.T. or alpine touring? We opted for the acronym. Luckily, the masses followed our lead, except it probably is a really suckie term for search engine optimization. Who cares.
But the name for this place, this particular part of the BC Talk forum, the general meeting hall has me stumped. Time to ask my esteemed peers and the peanuts in the gallery. You can believe you are whichever one you want.
What should we call this forum? I even considered Brawlroom, but figured that would be inviting too much trouble from the get go. I just changed it to "le Chronicle du Couloir," in memory of the original backcountry rag. I'm inclined to call it Mitch's Bar. Afterall, most everyone here at this point in time is a refugee from there. Much of the experiences and memories from there are, at this point, fondly remembered. It was a brawlroom itself at times, a juvvy moshpit at others, but there were some sages who passed through and dropped some pearls of wisdom too.
I'm putting 'er up for a vote, those two plus a few others and I welcome your suggestions.
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