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[[Image:re_smuni_i_pa_smuni.png|thumb|right|Ambiguous discourse (upper row) and vague discourse (lower row)]] | [[Image:re_smuni_i_pa_smuni.png|thumb|right|Ambiguous discourse (upper row) and vague discourse (lower row)]] | ||
Discourse is said to be ambiguous when it encompasses potentially disjoint regions of concept-space (circles 1 and 2 are separate). | Discourse is said to be ''ambiguous'' when it encompasses potentially disjoint regions of concept-space (circles 1 and 2 are separate). | ||
Discourse is said to be vague if it encompasses a large but contiguous region of concept-space (a polymorphic form is not disjoint). | Discourse is said to be ''vague'' if it encompasses a large but contiguous region of concept-space (a polymorphic form is not disjoint). | ||
''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. | |||
==Resources== | |||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity | |||
* 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 | |||
Revision as of 16:16, 31 July 2014
Discourse is said to be ambiguous when it encompasses potentially disjoint regions of concept-space (circles 1 and 2 are separate).
Discourse is said to be vague if it encompasses a large but contiguous region of concept-space (a polymorphic form is not disjoint).
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.