Friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell

[venta]

I have just met the word "disambiguate" in some documentation I'm reading (DOM Level 1, if you care).

[Poll #357609]

Yes, I should be concentrating on DOM rather than posting silly polls. Thank you for asking.

Update: It is, of course, a great word. It covers a concept which (in my opinion) isn't covered by any other word, and is nicely euphonious to boot.

I'd now close this poll if I had any idea how to do so :)

Comments

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... do we seem to be upbraiding Americans about making up words, while
discussing a poll asking if a certain word is "dreaful" or not?

Or, is that indeed the point, and did I just miss a huge part of the joke?

In any case, Americans don't make up words, that would be aparadisiacal.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Dreaful was an unfortunate typo, which I didn't notice til after people had started filling the poll in (at which point I could only have changed it by creating an entirely new poll).

Certainly a lot of nasty made-up words get accused of being Americanisms here; I dunno if they actually are or not.