Re: Keeping Track of Ambiguity in your Conlang?
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Friday, August 30, 2002, 23:49 |
Roberto Suarez Soto scripsit:
> Has it some special use, or is it mainstream?
It is certainly not colloquial, but literary: Aragorn asks Arwen
"Will you cleave to me?" Because of the following proposition,
there is no ambiguity. This is homonymy, not polysemy: the
two words have different Old English antecedents.
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