Pedants 'Я' Us
Thursday, April 5th, 2007 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_man"If the theory we propose for the 'genetic' mechanisms of the crystals is right, then I would not be surprised if miners find more of these caves in the next few years," Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, from the University of Granada, Spain, told BBC News.The quotes around "genetic" seem to show Auntie has forgotten "genetic" originated as the adjective from "genesis." <rolls eyes>
(The modern meaning is a back-formation from "genetics", which words was invented by William Bateson a century ago as the science of the genesis of heritable biological characteristics.)
