On Monday, 9 February 2015 at 18:18:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/9/15 10:12 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

Merriam Webster says otherwise ;)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/generic

Interesting, thanks. Also, M-W does not list "genericity". --

Webster needs to get over itself; according to usage, both are words. Though it looks like "genericity" is primarily used in the sciences, which is going to end up doing funny things to the connotation it carries. :) </linguist>

-Wyatt

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