Talk:simplicate

My first exposure to the word simplicate was in the 1950's when a NASA engineer told my father that the test pilots were being overwhelmed with situational indicators, and increasingly complex required response sequences. This was leading to dangerously increasing error rates and reduced safety margins, so they had to "simplicate" the control panels, to re-balance complex equipment failure rates against human error rates, by adding more complex interlock and sequencing circuits, and to reduce the time and motion demands on the pilots. Some pilots objected that they were being 'babied', and losing their 'feel for the craft'. Boldklub-PJs 19:59, 25 February 2011 (UTC) The Urban Dictionary seems to have a partially contradictory but sophomoric confabulation of simpliy and complicate. Perhaps it is just malapropism. Boldklub-PJs 19:59, 25 February 2011 (UTC)