Shane King wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
I have a pet linguistic peeve in this debate. Please don't mix up the words "systemic" and "systematic". Something is "systemic" if it has become built into a system. Something is "systematic" if it is done in a structured and organized way.
systematic, adj: relating to or consisting of a system. systemic, adj: of, relating to, or common to a system.
(From http://www.m-w.com/)
Seems to me that systematic and systemic can indeed be used interchangably in many cases.
"Consisting of" and "common to are clearly different. Your citation for "systematic" in particular is out of context..
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