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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. -- Business before pleasure, if not too bloomering long before. --Nicholas van Rijn John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com