> With apologies to everyone but Lee: > > The word "remediation" could be two entirely different words, one arising > from "remedy" and the other arising from "mediate". "The first mediation > failed, so we agreed to remedy the situation by conducting a remediation" is > a perfectly intelligible sentence without any redundancy. Bugger the OED. > It's full of latinate obfuscation. > > Nick
I don't read sports pages often, but once I was *very* pleased to learn from a baseball article in the Boston Globe that a certain manager was going to resign, rather than resign. ObModeling (not agent-based)/ObFuscation: the proper setting for mechanics is the tangent bundle of the tangent bundle... ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
