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All natural languages have fundamental ambiguity built in. This increases "fitness" both for the languages and those using it. Precise disambiguation requires a
by omniglottal 4y ago
All natural languages have fundamental ambiguity built in. This increases "fitness" both for the languages and those using it. Precise disambiguation requires an ungodly amount of context which, notably, we don't all share between our distinct moral communities. This is a feature, not a bug.
See (and practice) lojban if you intend to disambiguate.
Next, just try to imagine prose or poetry or, hell, even a compelling speech or nuanced opinion...
- throw10920 4y agoI agree that disambiguation requires context and that this is a feature. Wouldn't that mean that you could write in a homogeneous, but still unambiguous, style by manually, laboriously, providing context longform, alongside your main text, written in the same homogenized style?