Re: elusive area?

From: Jim Lawton <usenet1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:25:23 GMT

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:50:33 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

littlebeam <cyrus.lan@xxxxxxxxx> had it:

I want to use an adjective to describe an area which is under-specified
because it is too abstract, and hardly understandable.

e.g. Semantics and pragmatics are two ___ areas of natural language
processing.

Any good suggestions?

esoteric
complex
abstruse

obscure?
--
Jim
a Yorkshire polymoth
.

References:
- elusive area?
  - From: littlebeam
- Re: elusive area?
  - From: the Omrud

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