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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]]

Latest revision as of 09:03, 17 March 2015

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 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.

See also

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