See also Kevin reid's reply. Ambiguity is discrete (e.g. quantifier scope ambiguities). Vagueness is continuous. (this is in terminology as used in linguistics.) Vagueness is inescapable and often desirable. Lojban is not ambiguous, and that is once of its chief attractions, since the range of occasions when we actually want time-flies-like-an-arrow or someone-loves-everyone ambiguity (e.g. poetry) is much smaller than the range of occasions when we want to avoid it.
On 27 Sep 2011 10:31, "Robin Lee Powell" <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:--On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:26:23AM +0200, Escape Landsome wrote:
Of course, and Lojban uses it *all the time*.
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> Unless we are all Misters Spoc...
Where did you get this bizarre idea that Lojban is free of semantic
ambiguity?
-Robin
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