Re: [lojban] The proposed 'goals' of lojban

[Kevin Reid <kpreid@mac.com>]

On Apr 5, 2010, at 20:56, 白松 Oren wrote:

> Mission: Full expressive freedom: Any meaning expressed in a natural
> language can be expressed in Lojban, and at any desired level of
> ambiguity or precision.


We are not interested in supporting ambiguity. We are interested in  
supporting vagueness.

(Ambiguity is discrete; vagueness is continuous. Ambiguity means the  
listener has to choose among distinct and possibly very dissimilar  
meanings; vagueness means the listener gets a broad but contiguous  
cluster. Ambiguity, if possible in the language, has to be fixed by  
rewriting; vagueness can be fixed by adding elements.)

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>




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