Vagueness and ambiguity
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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.
Example
Note that the following example isn't syntactically ambiguous:
| la fred pu viska lo vinji ca lo nu lo se xi vei mo'e zo'e no'a cu vofli ga'u la .Tsurix. Fred saw the plane flying over Zurich. |
It can be made more precise:
| la fred. pu viska lo vinji ca lo ka ca'o vofli ga'u la .Tsurix. Fred saw a plane when he was flying over Zurich. |
| la fred. pu viska lo vinji noi ca'o vofli ga'u la .Tsurix. Fred saw a plane that was flying over Zurich. |
| la fred. pu viska le za'u cmana ca lo ka ca'o vofli ga'u la .Tsurix. Fred saw the mountains when he was flying over Zurich. |