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Nick Thompson on
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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
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Nick, I didn't (and wouldn't) use the noun "remediation" (at least, not to
mean "remedy"). As verbs, "remediate" and "remedy" have different senses to
me (and to the OED). In particular, the OED says (and I agree--though I
don't claim this was in my mind) that "remediate" includes the sense of
"counteract", and "remedy" doesn't.
> This is a great idea. But ONLY if we think of it as a "remedy", not
> as a "remediation". I would always argue for the minimalification of
> latinate suffixes.
>
> But it really is a great idea.
>
> Nick
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> I asked a (non-rhetorical) question:
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> >But you might think it is, so I ask you, do you? If not, how might
> >it be remediated (practically or impractically)?
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