a_Cascadian Report This Comment Date: June 28, 2005 12:24AM
This was designed as a virtual currency like the European Monetary Unit (EMU)
before the introduction of the Euro. THe EMU was used as a symbol of conversion
between different currencies in the European Economic Community. It was used to
psychologically and symbolically unite Europeans. The CaMU should be a symbol
of the economic health and ecological sustainablity in a bioregional Cascadia.
Cascadia is the bioregion of the "Pacific NorthWest" from the
Panhandle of Alaska to Northern California and from the Pacific ocean to the
western slopes of the Rocky Mountains. This is an international bioregion that
transcends nation-states like Canada and United States just like the Great Lakes
is shared administratively by the same two nation-states.
"Kwanesum" means in Chinook Jargon (Chinuk wawa)
"forever".
The tripple wave is like the dollar sign ($).
Another version:
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Anonymous Report This Comment Date: June 28, 2005 09:54PM
What a load of horse feathers!
rogue_1 Report This Comment Date: June 29, 2005 11:03AM
YEP,
sounds like a load of shit to me,too
eeper Report This Comment Date: June 29, 2005 09:21PM
actually I like it. And the fact that I bet dump ass 'Mericans hate it means
its good!
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: June 30, 2005 03:33PM
You'd think the designer would have checked the spelling of =monetary=.
Daizee Report This Comment Date: July 01, 2005 02:47AM
Actually the spelling of monetary as monitary is often the European spelling.
Just like grey for gray or colour for color. I think that the artist intended
to break from the US re-spelling that was intentionally done in the 19th
American nationalistic schools to create a distinction between the British
empire and the USA.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 01, 2005 03:00PM
That's complete bollocks, Daizee. It has never been spelt =monitary= in
English. Consult a dictionary - the OED doesn't even list it as an alternative.
You may have mangled many of our words but that one's original.
Daizee Report This Comment Date: July 01, 2005 08:09PM
Do a search on the internet and see how many European institutions have the
word "monitary" as part of their name.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 01, 2005 09:26PM
...yes, and the first thing Google asks is "Did you mean to search for
=monetary=?" Just because some idiots spell it =monitary= doesn't make it
right. This is the same argument used at the end of the millennium, when cretins
all around the world celebrated a year early and even most governments went
along with it. I guess they realised there's no point in arguing with a fool.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 10, 2005 09:48AM
what a jerk to fight over spelling. sounds like a power trip to me.