disambiguate (reexamined)

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

I do find that DISAMBIGUATE is not well known to the general public, even
educated folks for whom it would seem to be of great use. In writing reports
for law firms, I have used DISAMBIGUATE several times, and the lawyers
inevitably ask me to define it. And don't say, "Well, sure, lawyers are more
interested in finding ambiguity than resolving it." It depends which side
they are on.


In a message dated 8/20/2000 11:22:09 AM, fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU writes:

<< On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Laurence Horn wrote:

> describing--DISAMBIGUATE as a verb "mostly used in computational
> lexicography".  Is it really that restricted?  Generative, and
> probably pre-generative, linguists have been disambiguating lexical
> items and syntactic structures under that name since at least the
> early 1960's, >>