Is GENERICIDE a bad choice or morphemes?

[sagehen]

>John Baker writes:
> .... But there are other words that are used in senses at odds with their
>morphologies.  Consider escapee; one would suppose that the person who
>escapes is the escaper, and the person or thing escaped is the escapee,
>but a different meaning prevails.... <
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"Absentee" is an example that I have always thought particularly silly-looking.
In the case of  frequently-seen "retiree" one could suppose the retirement
was involuntary, which suggests another possibility: "resignee" for people
actually fired but who are described, for political reasons, as having
resigned (in order to spend more time with their families, or whatever).
A. Murie

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