When you’re stepping outside the well-trodden path and trying to create something new, you often have to find inspiration outside of the discipline itself. I tend to read books on local economics, environmentalism, and small business practices seeking analogous situations that might help to define this new pathway. To that end, I am in the [...]
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Synonyms: “Local” and “Small-town”
Posted in Rants on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I went to Thesaurus.com for some help in coming up with a new name for this project, and I typed in “small town,” which brought up the following list: bounded, civic, confined, district, divisional, geographical, insular, legendary, limited, narrow, narrow-minded, neighborhood, parish, parochial,provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, territorial, town, vernacular Excuse me for a moment, but WTF??? Let’s look at some of these so-called synonymns [...]
