From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Sat Jul 21 10:22:31 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 21 Jul 2001 17:22:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 2244 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 17:22:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 17:22:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 17:22:22 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f6LHMMf18459 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:22:22 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:22:21 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] how can i help lojban? what can $ do? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, And Rosta wrote: > Tanru are vague, not ambiguous in the technical linguistic sense. > Ambiguity involves a small number of clear and clearly distinct > alternatives. Lojban does in fact strive to avoid semantic > ambiguity. (e.g. brivla always have same place structure; logical > ambiguities are avoided.) Whats the difference between 'vague', and 'ambiguous'? - Jay Kominek