Re: Re: Is GENERICIDE a bad choice or morphemes?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/4/05 5:06:52 PM, jdespres at MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM writes:


> The last time I remember this happening was in 1993, but I skipped
> a bunch of DSNA meetings after that, so the custom might have
> died out well afterwards, for all I know.
> 
> I apologize if I came across as anti-attorney.  Obviously, many
> lawyers are extremely literate and scholarly; where would a
> historical lexicographer be without them?  It just bugged me a lot to
> be finger-wagged about how to handle sensitive lexicographical
> matters by people who had an obvious financial interest in
> shortchanging the purely linguistic side of things.  (If you're an
> academic, imagine being herded into a room by budget-slashing
> government officials and told, "Enough with the expensive
> conferences and academic journals -- you intellectuals need to
> make up your minds about what you think!")
> 
> Joanne
> 

Wish I'd been there--it must have been quite a scene. Can we invite them to 
Boston and wave back?