On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Steven Brust wrote: #At 10:35 PM 8/18/2003 -0700, David Silberstein wrote: #> On the other hand, he also says: "The #>two artifacts were, or are to be, created together --", which #>ambiguifies the causality and sequence. # #Mark? Pamela? Can he say that? Well, he DID, so obviously he CAN. But I would prefer "ambiguate", as Pamela has already commented. I'm not familiar with "ambiguate", but "disambiguate" has been in my technical vocabulary (linguistics) since grad school. It has my vote for one of the ugliest but most useful words I know. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel