What is the difference between “less ambiguous” and “more unambiguous”?

If you

rephrase the following sentence, the sentence will be less ambiguous.

If you make the following changes your sentence will be more unambiguous.

Do sentences has a significant difference in either meaning and connotation?

What should we do to get better at this field of study?

Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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Unambiguous is an absolute state. A state that is unambiguous is an absolute state. Hence, you can never be more unambiguous.

Is it possible to be less unambiguous? Ambiguity is an absolute state, and in some cases it can’t be. If the majority of the text is ambiguous, can there be one point or a certain part of the text? Or is it slightly ambiguous? Why is it more natural to be unambiguous than unambiguous?

As the two expressions are known, they are equivalent (though the same).

I know of a lot of improper English language, but there are plenty of good examples that are perfectly normal.

Just in case, explain the difference between right and wrong. Technology is either right or wrong. They are absolute states. The way they are defined. When you write a document about a point made up by someone else, are you still wrong?

We all accept terms like more wrong and more right because they are intellectual expediences that allow for nuances to be explained more easily.

How should we name tomatoes as vegetable

and not as fruit? Is it right to call a suspension bridge?

So when we describe absolute states yet insert a modifier in front of them, we are actually employing

the linguistic shorthand. Why is this a bad question?

When we say less ambiguous or more unambiguous we mean:

Contains less ambiguous content than… Contains
more unambiguous content than…

As neither of those rolls of the tongue (or pen, or keyboard), we say less ambiguous, etc. (i.e.

in different languages of ours), but by using a standard word like 0, 0, 1 and 3=1).

Answered on April 11, 2021.
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Your text was ambiguous,
which is bad, and after the change it will be less bad. What makes me satisfied with the more positive result?
More unambiguous is compliment: Your text already was unambiguous and the change will make it even better.

This is a general phenomenon which I, as a mathematician, find quite amusing: logically equivalent sentences are perceived as quite different emotionally according to the formulation used.

If you don’t believe in me, why can’t you? Where does your friend the boxer in the story say he is intelligent and less stupid than his cousin? With

both
languages and logic one could claim that the answer “2+2 = 5” is unambiguous but that the answer “No!” is unambiguous by default. is more unambiguous.

Answered on April 12, 2021.
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Your text was ambiguous,
which is bad, and after the change it will be less bad. What makes me satisfied with the more positive result?
More unambiguous is compliment: Your text already was unambiguous and the change will make it even better.

This is a general phenomenon which I, as a mathematician, find quite amusing: logically equivalent sentences are perceived as quite different emotionally according to the formulation used.

If you don’t believe in me, why can’t you? Where does your friend the boxer in the story say he is intelligent and less stupid than his cousin? With

both
languages and logic one could claim that the answer “2+2 = 5” is unambiguous but that the answer “No!” is unambiguous by default. is more unambiguous.

Answered on April 20, 2021.
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Your text was ambiguous,
which is bad, and after the change it will be less bad. What makes me satisfied with the more positive result?
More unambiguous is compliment: Your text already was unambiguous and the change will make it even better.

This is a general phenomenon which I, as a mathematician, find quite amusing: logically equivalent sentences are perceived as quite different emotionally according to the formulation used.

If you don’t believe in me, why can’t you? Where does your friend the boxer in the story say he is intelligent and less stupid than his cousin? With

both
languages and logic one could claim that the answer “2+2 = 5” is unambiguous but that the answer “No!” is unambiguous by default. is more unambiguous.

Answered on April 21, 2021.
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Your text was ambiguous,
which is bad, and after the change it will be less bad. What makes me satisfied with the more positive result?
More unambiguous is compliment: Your text already was unambiguous and the change will make it even better.

This is a general phenomenon which I, as a mathematician, find quite amusing: logically equivalent sentences are perceived as quite different emotionally according to the formulation used.

If you don’t believe in me, why can’t you? Where does your friend the boxer in the story say he is intelligent and less stupid than his cousin? With

both
languages and logic one could claim that the answer “2+2 = 5” is unambiguous but that the answer “No!” is unambiguous by default. is more unambiguous.

Answered on April 21, 2021.
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Unambiguous is an absolute state. A state that is unambiguous is an absolute state. Hence, you can never be more unambiguous.

Is it possible to be less unambiguous? Ambiguity is an absolute state, and in some cases it can’t be. If the majority of the text is ambiguous, can there be one point or a certain part of the text? Or is it slightly ambiguous? Why is it more natural to be unambiguous than unambiguous?

As the two expressions are known, they are equivalent (though the same).

I know of a lot of improper English language, but there are plenty of good examples that are perfectly normal.

Just in case, explain the difference between right and wrong. Technology is either right or wrong. They are absolute states. The way they are defined. When you write a document about a point made up by someone else, are you still wrong?

We all accept terms like more wrong and more right because they are intellectual expediences that allow for nuances to be explained more easily.

How should we name tomatoes as vegetable

and not as fruit? Is it right to call a suspension bridge?

So when we describe absolute states yet insert a modifier in front of them, we are actually employing

the linguistic shorthand. Why is this a bad question?

When we say less ambiguous or more unambiguous we mean:

Contains less ambiguous content than… Contains
more unambiguous content than…

As neither of those rolls of the tongue (or pen, or keyboard), we say less ambiguous, etc. (i.e.

in different languages of ours), but by using a standard word like 0, 0, 1 and 3=1).

Answered on April 22, 2021.
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Why is it easier to understand with less ambiguity? By using the word’much unambiguous’, the speaker or writer is saying that the sentence in question could never keep getting better. If the speaker doesn’t like to suggest that a review is ambiguous, consider a thank you in advance?

Why are English speakers more polite than English speakers? LINK

In actual usage “more unambiguous” shows up 10% more often as often as “less ambiguous” (warning: N-gram link ), and it’s pretty constant usage since 1950.

Despite the absolute nature of unambiguous, common usage doesn’t strictly follow that definition. If a thing can be less ambiguous then another, then another thing can be more unambiguous than another.

In case you are curious, more unambiguous is most commonly followed by ‘than’ and’more unambiguous than” is most often followed by ‘the’ ( link ).

Answered on April 22, 2021.
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Your text was ambiguous,
which is bad, and after the change it will be less bad. What makes me satisfied with the more positive result?
More unambiguous is compliment: Your text already was unambiguous and the change will make it even better.

This is a general phenomenon which I, as a mathematician, find quite amusing: logically equivalent sentences are perceived as quite different emotionally according to the formulation used.

If you don’t believe in me, why can’t you? Where does your friend the boxer in the story say he is intelligent and less stupid than his cousin? With

both
languages and logic one could claim that the answer “2+2 = 5” is unambiguous but that the answer “No!” is unambiguous by default. is more unambiguous.

Answered on April 22, 2021.
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Unambiguous is an absolute state. A state that is unambiguous is an absolute state. Hence, you can never be more unambiguous.

Is it possible to be less unambiguous? Ambiguity is an absolute state, and in some cases it can’t be. If the majority of the text is ambiguous, can there be one point or a certain part of the text? Or is it slightly ambiguous? Why is it more natural to be unambiguous than unambiguous?

As the two expressions are known, they are equivalent (though the same).

I know of a lot of improper English language, but there are plenty of good examples that are perfectly normal.

Just in case, explain the difference between right and wrong. Technology is either right or wrong. They are absolute states. The way they are defined. When you write a document about a point made up by someone else, are you still wrong?

We all accept terms like more wrong and more right because they are intellectual expediences that allow for nuances to be explained more easily.

How should we name tomatoes as vegetable

and not as fruit? Is it right to call a suspension bridge?

So when we describe absolute states yet insert a modifier in front of them, we are actually employing

the linguistic shorthand. Why is this a bad question?

When we say less ambiguous or more unambiguous we mean:

Contains less ambiguous content than… Contains
more unambiguous content than…

As neither of those rolls of the tongue (or pen, or keyboard), we say less ambiguous, etc. (i.e.

in different languages of ours), but by using a standard word like 0, 0, 1 and 3=1).

Answered on April 22, 2021.
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Your text was ambiguous,
which is bad, and after the change it will be less bad. What makes me satisfied with the more positive result?
More unambiguous is compliment: Your text already was unambiguous and the change will make it even better.

This is a general phenomenon which I, as a mathematician, find quite amusing: logically equivalent sentences are perceived as quite different emotionally according to the formulation used.

If you don’t believe in me, why can’t you? Where does your friend the boxer in the story say he is intelligent and less stupid than his cousin? With

both
languages and logic one could claim that the answer “2+2 = 5” is unambiguous but that the answer “No!” is unambiguous by default. is more unambiguous.

Answered on April 23, 2021.
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