Subject: RE: [lojban] how can i help lojban? what can $ do?

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:04:08 +0100

> From: Jay Kominek [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: 21 July 2001 18:22
> 
> 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'?

Ambiguity involves a small number of clear and clearly distinct
alternatives. Vagueness involves an indeterminate and indefinitely
large number of not clearly distinct alternatives.

-And.