Talk:puuvapaa

The word has been criticized for not being consistent with Finnish grammar and the recommended usage. I agree on that point, but on the other hand it is an established paper industry and trade term used exactly in the same sense as the English term woodfree. Nobody in paper industry uses "puuton paperi" (lit: woodless paper) instead of "puuvapaa paperi" (lit: woodfree paper). Maybe they should, but the point is, they don't. The existence of the professional usage of puuvapaa can be verified e.g. at the website of the Finnish Forest Industry Association (http://www.metsateollisuus.fi). It lists 11 producers of puuvapaa hienopaperi.

Puuton, by the way, means deforested or unforested. Hekaheka 17:00, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Convinced. The industrial terms really don't always agree with the grammar. ;) -- Frous 18:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

By the way, puuton doesn't exclusively refer to an environment where all the trees have been felled. True, it is very usual in that context, but can mean everything "without wood/tree(s)". -- Frous 11:18, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * That's right, and the other senses are well covered in the entry puuton. Hekaheka 12:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Requests for deletion - kept
Kept. See archived discussion of September 2007. 18:00, 30 January 2008 (UTC)