On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:09:03PM -0400, Mark A Mandel wrote: > . . . Linguists have been using "disambiguate" for a long > time. It earns my vote as one of the ugliest words I know, but it is > absolutely too useful (at least in my professional language) to do > without. It also has some usage in the relational calculus, the theory that underlies relational databases. -- "...too many people want things to be simple when they are not and cannot be. Encouraging that desire is seductive and rewarding, but also dangerous." Iain M. Banks, 'Against a Dark Background', pp 299