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Re: [lojban] English

Escape Landsome, On 27/09/2011 15:41:

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.


Are you sure ?


I'm sure for myself and for most people; and even in poetry I more often find myself, when writing it, as opposed to reading it, striving to forestall ambiguity or misreading of ambiguous phrases than to capitalize on it. Of course, someone might perfectly legitimately prefer a language that is ambiguous, but given that we have 6000 ambiguous languages and 1 unambiguous one (Lojban), it seems a bit unreasonable to criticize Lojban for providing what the other 6000 don't.

--And.



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