Definitely recommend Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity. Also his "The Structure of Complex Words". Empson was a poet and literary critic. The essence of poetry is the expression of multiple levels of meaning, which is obviously related to ambiguity. Ron Hardin, known in math circles for counting interesting combinatorial objects (another of today's subjects), introduced me to Empson. On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:43 AM Hilarie Orman <ho@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
Even with mathematics, stating the pigeon/person attack distribution is a challenge. Indeed, it could be the same pigeon attacking the same person. Every 30 seconds exactly?
"The Seven Types of Ambiguity" by William Empson describes how English literature utilizes ambiguity.
Nothing will come of nothing.
Hilarie
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