Re: [lojban] English

[Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com>]

I think a point John is alluding to, is that ambiguity is socially
relevant, AND socially useful.  After all, see it as some evolutionary
process, it seems that ambiguity in natural language *was* beneficial
to it.

Unless we are all Misters Spock here, it is very likely you already
noticed that verbal ambiguity is a boon, at least in some situations :
some well designed sentence can be as a rock that hits two or three
goals at the same time, and it also allows us to imply meaning to
somebody else without being too direct or even, offensive.

Ambiguity is good !

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