Re: articles

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!
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