@paoloredaelli My favorite ambiguity;
Let's eat, grandma.
Let's eat grandma.
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@niclas In latin they are
Nonna edemus or nonnam edemeus. First usage is vocative, the second accusative
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@paoloredaelli

1. Wouldn't it be; "Nonnaedemusornonnamedemeus" ? 😂 I recall Latin being void of space and punctuation...

2. As I learned English, German and Russian in school, I got to learn advanced grammars, so I get such constructs.
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@niclas Good point. AFAICS spaces were not used on stones to save space... @lupyuen

@lupyuen is Mandarin ambigous too? As far I know it is not a fusional/inflected language.
Most of the expressiveness of latin come from being highly inflective. For example "agenda" liteally means "things that must be done", nominative plural of passive gerundive of verb "agere", i.e. "to do"

@paoloredaelli
AFAIK (only have ~2-300 hours of learning), Mandarin relies heavily on sentence structure and being a lot more explicit in general.

An interesting thought I had when trying to learn Mandarin was;
"Most languages are spoken, with a written representation."
"Chinese is a written language with spoken representations."

Getting really off-topic here... 😉
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@paoloredaelli @lupyuen "nominative plural of passive gerundive"

Must. Resist. Monty Python reference.

@oblate
Don't resist. Tell us the reference as I ignore it 😀
Those who can't laugh, especially of themselves, are not serious person.
Quite often are dangerous guys 😜
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@paoloredaelli @lupyuen Life of Brian ...

CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?

BRIAN: It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.

CENTURION: No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!

The centurion then goes on to correct Brian's grammar.

http://www.montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/9.htm

@oblate "romanes ITE domo!"
I couldn't resist 😜
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@paoloredaelli
what? there's nothing ambiguous in that excerpt. most of the men referred to in the previous sentence have a history of abusing women. your sense of ambiguity is probably more of a "you-problem"
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@2ck
I meant that it could be a form intrisic ambiguity of the english language derived from not being inflexed, such as "let's eat grandma" vs "let's eat, grandma!". In #latin the first is "nonnam edemus", the second "nonna edemus".
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