tangents upon tangents!

Posted by lrudolph on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/a-further-tangent-tp7407608p7410974.html

> 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...

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