Is GENERICIDE a bad choice or morphemes?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I thought of that possibility too, Larry, but I refrained from mentioning it.

I snooze, I lose.

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 4:31 PM -0800 3/4/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>It's not just aesthetically bad - it's transparently stupid.
>Lawyers are usually more scrupulous -about language, anyway. The
>obvious pun on "genocide" is also idiotic.
>
>It may be a hybrid, but what's wrong with "brandicide" ?
>
>JL
>

Two days ago I'd have said nothing. Now I'm reading it as
"death/suicide by brandy", and I think I'm just about ready for it...

L

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