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From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Monday, January 31, 2005, 1:34
Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote at 2005-01-30 14:20:03 (-0500) > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:42:20PM -0500, Doug Dee wrote: > > > According to _Definiteness_ by Christopher Lyons (Cambridge U. Press, 1999), > > > > Such a clunky word. I think we should call it something else, > > linguistic convention be damned. Maybe "definity". > > :) > > I have a strong personal feeling that "definacy"* ought to be a > possible formation with that sense, but Google only finds 33 > instances, most misspellings of "deficiency".
I think the original word should really be _definition_. But that already has a rather different meaning in this context. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/