Kevin Smith & Graeme Mcmahon

[Tom Dunlap]

they are going to present at the Rochester Arborist Workshop in MN

http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=dqen4rmab&oeidk=a07ed88oabdcfb79f86

 

[KTSmith]

Thanks Tom for putting this up. When I first joined the buzz, I made a point of putting all of my "open" presentations out there. I stopped doing that for everything after seeing a lack of interest other than "why don't you do one near me". I owe you a note, I know!

 

[FreeFallin]

Wish I could get the day off, this looks great! Not a long drive for me either.

 

[chris_girard]

Well worth seeing the presentations. Wish I could be there too!

 

[JeffGu]

I would love to see Dr. Smith give a presentation. If nothing else, just to see how badly I pronounce taxonomic names.

"That there, is a Red Mulberry. His name is Morris Rubadub."

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I'm going to miss the workshop

Instead I'll be on my way to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for the annual winter camping trip. Choosing between the two was really hard

 

[JD3000]

I would love to see Dr. Smith give a presentation. If nothing else, just to see how badly I pronounce taxonomic names.

"That there, is a Red Mulberry. His name is Morris Rubadub."

Taxus x 'Brownii'

 

[KTSmith]

I'll take that as support, but I get corrected on my pronounciation on scientific names when I'm abroad...unless I'm paying extreme attention. And then I get flack back home. For example, the Latin "A" is always pronounced as the "a" in "father". So if I refer to "Acer" or "Abies", that needs a short vowel rather than the long vowel we Americans usually use. Oh well, I've learned to have a thick skin after provoking chuckles while working with field botanists in Siberia and the former Yugoslavia. I'm sure they thought I was the equivalent of Jed Clampett or Ralph Cramden! Americans have trouble publicly giving the genus name for pine in correct Latin pronounciation. Hint: it rhymes with "genus". There is no short I-sound in Latin, at least not the way we speak it. Now I'm sure I'll be corrected by some classic scholar out there. Like I say, I need a thick skin.

 

[mrtree]

Kevin will there be a translator for Graeme? Ask him to bring some vegimite and tim tams.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Kevin and Graeme may need translators to understand Minnesotan!

 

[CRL]

I'm going to miss the workshop

Instead I'll be on my way to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for the annual winter camping trip. Choosing between the two was really hard

What's your entry point and proposed route? Gonna be sloppy if this weather keeps on the current trajectory...

 

[JeffGu]

Now I'm sure I'll be corrected by some classic scholar out there.

I wouldn't sweat it, too much. The closest thing we have to classic scholars on here probably learned their Latin from a "Hooked On Phonics" class down at the Adult Learning Center while studying for their GED test.

The only way I'm going to get any of it right is if they make a special episode of Sesame Street dealing with the subject.

 

[JD3000]

There's a lot to work with there...
I shall resist.

 

[JeffGu]

Yeah, well, don't forget that documentary I made about you. I still think I can sell it to PBS as soon as Drumpf abolishes the FCC and there's nobody to censor it.

 

[Stihlmadd]

Kevin will there be a translator for Graeme? Ask him to bring some vegimite and tim tams.

hey settle down there Yank,
thats please ask him when referring to the 'godfather.'


but seriously would love to attend

 

[JeffGu]

The Vegemite goes on this shelf...

 

[guymayor]

Compromise is what used to be done in politics; never quite understood what a 'compromised' tree is...as if we knew what a normal tree is!