Re: "Cross-specifically"

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In a message dated 96-07-22 15:00:58 EDT, rkephart@osprey.unf.edu (Ronald
Kephart) writes:

> Someone has called my attention to the possibility that
"cross-specifically"
> may
> not be immediately understood in this way by all. I just wonder if the
term
> is
> new to anyone else; I've been using it all my (anthropological) life.
>
I've never heard the term and thought you meant specific in the John
McCreery/Mike Shupp sense of the word - the individual variation of a
practice, trait, etc. as opposed to generalizations or "cross cultural"
occurrences.

- Adrienne

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