Re: USAGE Re: Defining words and how they are used

On 6/23/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> "Eh?" was meant to be shorthand for "Sorry - either I've misunderstood
> you or you've made a pretty obvious error."
(Which is, incidentally, roughly how I use that term when I use it.)

> Some engelangs (e.g. IIRC Loglan, lojban, Livagian &
> Classical Yiklamu) claim to have no ambiguity at all.
I believe Lojban claims syntactic unambiguity but not semantic: words
can have a range of (related) meanings, but there is at most one legal
way to parse a given series of words. (No "time flies like an arrow"
sentences.)

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>