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

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Wheras CSS specs introduce the mind-bending concept of "specificity"

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking you're wrong (-:

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

American documentation is it, pechance?

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that you're thinking you can wind up almost half of the voters by pointing out that about half the voters think they're fundamentally wrong about the likability of this word.

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

You obviously don't read a large enough number of specs - that word gets used often.

(he he having to read DOM level one)

[taimatsu]

CLARIFY. AAAAAARGH.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia uses "disambiguate", which makes it both correct and damn cool.

It also doesn't mean the same thing as clarify for example, if I write:

"I like Brown"

...replying "Could you clarify that ?" might be met with a response like "Well, OK, it's not like I want to have his babies or anything, I just think he does his thang pretty damn well."

...which does not necessarily result in disambiguation between Chancellors and soul music legends.

Chambers - never wrong

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

If Chambers says it's a word, then it's a word:
http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/chref/chref.py/main?query=disambiguate&title=21st

Random Blast from the Past...

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Hello, Beth! Do you remember me? (sad person 2 years ahead of you at school if you are having problems and if that narrows it down slightly...)

Being quite bored right now, I followed a whole load of random LJ links through people I vaguely know and found... um... you at the end of it. Maybe there are only about 200 real people in the world (although I'm not sure that I am one of them!).

Good to see you are doing fine!

[surje.livejournal.com]

the word decouple is not quite as nice but is more useful. however the word disintermediate is hard to beat!