[Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Wed Jun 1 18:51:05 UTC 2011


> And Larry Sanger and Magnus may be remembered for popularizing
> "disambiguation" outside of linguistics...
>
> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2009/06/25/on-disambiguation-and-the-atomization-of-meaning/
>
> SJ

Disconflation gets only 45 google hits while unconflation gets 267.
Conflation, I guess, refers to confusion of similar ideas rather than
similar words.

Fred





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