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Thernstrom's anecdote about how Powell became brigadier general is ambiguous on its face.
Here we suggest that a standardized visual biological description language would provide more readable and less ambiguous communication and, with computational implementation, provide a basis for distributed searchable archives of functional (as opposed to structural) knowledge, and serve as a 'computer-aided design' (CAD) language for simulating and analyzing biological systems.
Excellent reviews for the lawyer-author's fifth novel, about a morally ambiguous attorney's collaboration with law enforcement to nail a group of corrupt judges.
So, unless I have missed a range of expressions, the conclusion one can draw from the above is that the language we use to describe the initial attempts to establish sexual relations is either puritanical, or hostile, or frivolous, or ambiguous, hardly the range one would expect in an open, sexually healthy, egalitarian society.
I am not sure that I should have characterized the perpetuation of obsolete or archaic meanings as “counterproductive”: perhaps “wrong,” “misleading,” “ambiguous,” or “old-fashioned” would have been closer to the mark; phrased another way, I must agree that people ought to use words in their current senses if they expect to be understood.