fubarobfusco comments on Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists (DC, March 13) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 01 March 2012 10:21:19PM *  4 points [-]

The paper in question is here:

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG1053.pdf

It's curious to note that "deradicalization" is used in both reflexive and transitive senses — a person deradicalizes (him- or herself); or a person is deradicalized by some social process.

Comment author: Ezekiel 01 March 2012 11:03:44PM 2 points [-]

Thank you; that looks interesting!

English has lots of verbs that are the same in their transitive and reflexive forms: "freeze", "burn", "open", "close", "start", "finish", "cook", "look", et cetera. It doesn't make translation any easier, I can tell you that.