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2012/3/17 MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>:
> Or you can explicitly state all the various ways it's ambiguous.


This is not a *very good* solution, for ambiguity is often very wide.

For instance, "three men ate four cakes", has a lot of possible
meanings...  and I'd rather not list all of them.

Beyond this simple remark, there's the notion that structural
ambiguities come as continuums, whereas more superficial ambiguities
often can be listed.   But (X Y Z) = perhaps ((X Y) Z) and perhaps (X
(Y Z)) [and even perhaps (X ... Z) * Y] is a kind of ambiguity that
may seem to be superficial, on a logical-syntactic level, but is a
structural deep one, on semantic or pragmatic level [e.g. in poetry]

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