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[[Image:re_smuni_i_pa_smuni.png|thumb|right|Ambiguous discourse (upper row, circles 1 and 2 are separate) and vague discourse (lower row, one polymorphic form is not disjoint).]] | {{se inspekte/en}}[[Image:re_smuni_i_pa_smuni.png|thumb|right|Ambiguous discourse (upper row, circles 1 and 2 are separate) and vague discourse (lower row, one polymorphic form is not disjoint).]] | ||
Discourse is said to be ''ambiguous'' when it encompasses potentially disjoint regions of concept-space. | Discourse is said to be ''ambiguous'' when it encompasses potentially disjoint regions of concept-space. | ||
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''Syntactic ambiguity'' is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Lojban doesn't have syntactic ambiguity. | ''Syntactic ambiguity'' is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Lojban doesn't have syntactic ambiguity. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Ambiguous sentences in English]] | *[[Ambiguous sentences in English]] | ||
==Resources== | ==Resources== | ||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity | ||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence | ||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_that_is_is_that_that_is_not_is_not_is_that_it_it_is | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_that_is_is_that_that_is_not_is_not_is_that_it_it_is | ||
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Discourse is said to be ambiguous when it encompasses potentially disjoint regions of concept-space.
Discourse is said to be vague if it encompasses a large but contiguous region of concept-space.
Syntactic ambiguity is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Lojban doesn't have syntactic ambiguity.