[lojban] Re: vagueness vs ambiguity

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 22 October 2009 18:36:56 Luke Bergen wrote:
> So I've heard people say in the past "lojban is vague, but it is not
> ambiguous".  But what is the difference exactly?
>
> "John and Jim played a game.  He lost".  I've heard this example used to
> explain how english is "ambiguous".  But how is this different from {la
> djan joi la djim kelci lo lo nunkei .i ra toljinga} which I guess is
> "ambiguous"?

"kelci" isn't playing a game, it's playing with a toy. How about "la djan. la 
djim. jivna la baduk .i ra toljinga"?

mu'omi'e .pier.

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