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RE: greeks and love (was RE: [lojban] registry of experimental cmavo - new pr...
At 09:16 PM 07/19/2001 -0400, Craig wrote:
><Whatever happened to total unambiguity?>
>Never was any, never will be. No theory -- and certainly no practice --
>allows it in language. And if you think the descriptive component has
>problems, imagine what happens in the emotive one, where there is not even
a
>"common ground" against which to check things.
I know there never was any, but there still IS a CLAIM of total ambiguity.
Where? Not in anything Lojbanic.
I
like the language even though it is ambiguous, but I'm not here for the
unambiguity part. I think we should stop even saying we are unambiguous.
Lojban is GRAMMATICALLY unambiguous, and also is unambiguous in the sense
of having audiovisual isomorphism between text and speech. I believe we
explicitly say that Lojban is NOT semantically unambiguous.
lojbab
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