On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Mark A Mandel wrote: > 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. What's wrong with "clarify" or "correct" or (Fowler's) "remove"?