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On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:31, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:26:23AM +0200, Escape Landsome wrote:
>>=20
>> Unless we are all Misters Spock here, it is very likely you
>> already noticed that verbal ambiguity is a boon, at least in some
>> situations=20
>=20
> Of course, and Lojban uses it *all the time*.
>=20
> Where did you get this bizarre idea that Lojban is free of semantic
> ambiguity?

I like to say that Lojban is never ambiguous, but often vague.


(The intended distinction being that you can't have multiple possible meani=
ngs without including the region between them; the vagueness is among meani=
ngs which form a relatively natural category, as opposed to ambiguity like =
the three unrelated parses of "Time flies like an arrow".)

--=20
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