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Escape Landsome, On 27/09/2011 15:41:
>> since the range of
>> occasions when we actually want time-flies-like-an-arrow or
>> someone-loves-everyone ambiguity (e.g. poetry) is much smaller than the
>> range of occasions when we want to avoid it.
>
> Are you sure ?

I'm sure for myself and for most people; and even in poetry I more often fi=
nd myself, when writing it, as opposed to reading it, striving to forestall=
 ambiguity or misreading of ambiguous phrases than to capitalize on it. Of =
course, someone might perfectly legitimately prefer a language that is ambi=
guous, but given that we have 6000 ambiguous languages and 1 unambiguous on=
e (Lojban), it seems a bit unreasonable to criticize Lojban for providing w=
hat the other 6000 don't.

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