Re: Difficult language ideas
| From: | Leigh Richards <palomaverde@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 21, 2006, 13:21 |
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On 9/21/06, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:
> One question:
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> What exactly do you mean by "ambiguous"?
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> It's a bloody hard problem depending on how you define it, especially
> if you consider that it is inherently impossible to eliminate
> ambiguity from a symbolic language.
Language-wise, I mean syntactic ambiguity. I'm not trying to eliminate
even that, but only to make it unlikely that a given sentence can be
parsed in more than one way. The 'Time flies like an arrow' sort of
example is mostly what I want to avoid. As for semantics, I also want
to make it easy (with as little circumlocution as possible) to clarify
meaning.
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