Re: [lojban] Re: Questions about Lojban

[Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

2015-02-05 4:30 GMT+03:00 Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>:

On 1/29/2015 10:56 AM, Gleki Arxokuna wrote:

You have a sentence.
You interpret it.
After this interpretation you call it ambiguous.

That is not syntactic ambiguity, which must be resolved before you can interpret it.

The more classic Lojban examples of such ambiguity are of the "Pretty Little Girls School House Door Knob" type, where the grouping of modifiers/modificands isn't determinable (or if it is determinable, depends on particular choices among polysemous meanings, where if a different less-common meaning were chosen, the phrase might parse differently).

I don't think either this is ambiguity. The relation between modifiers/modificands is just vague.

 

The other English examples often used are "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." and "I saw that gasoline can explode."

This example is related not to mythical syntactical ambiguity (as I said resulting from the operation of interpreting) but instead from polysemy of "flies" and "like" .

lojbab

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