On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:24:45AM -0700, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > 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"? It doesn't mean the same thing. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp