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Reply Tue 6 Jun, 2006 02:11 am
what's the meaning of "genrewise"?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 6 Jun, 2006 07:12 am
It means with regard to a genre. The term genre is most often used to refer to books or motion pictures which appeal to a specific interest--such as detective fiction or science fiction.

"Genrewise" appears to me to be a neologism--which is to say, whoever wrote the sentence in which you read this word made the word up, it did not exist prior to that sentence. I may be wrong, but it appears to me that the author made the word up.
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Tue 6 Jun, 2006 08:43 pm
Right -- there is no such word. I believe even when I've occassionally seen it used, it was hyphenated: genre-wise. Still not considered good style, however.
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Reply Sat 10 Jun, 2006 02:42 pm
I am assuming I am the one brought this non word to angelina_kitty's attention:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/about75628.html

It's true, it's not a word. I was asking if you had any preference to a particular genre of movie that you would be interested in watching so that I could give you some suggestions. I apologize for my misuse of the english language. Very Happy
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