ABSTRACT
Everyone who uses language knows that it is ambiguous. Consider this excerpt from a recommendation letter: “Anybody who will get this fellow to work for him would indeed be fortunate.” The writer might be either congratulating or warning future employers. Typically, the inherent ambiguity of language gets in the way of successful communication, or at least, it gets in the way of those who attempt to explain how communication succeeds even though language has such high potential for ambiguity.
