Dragaera

Pararectal - A real word?

Steve Simmons scs at di.org
Thu Sep 23 05:12:42 PDT 2004

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.
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cannot be.  Encouraging that desire is seductive and rewarding, but also
dangerous."      Iain M. Banks, 'Against a Dark Background', pp 299