" is way off track. But, while you're there, I will elaborate a
bit, in the vague hope it may elaborate my perspective.

     .    There are several sources for ambiguity in communication.
1.   multiple meanings for individual words (which think of roughly as
lexical ambiguity, and is often because we can encompass more meanings by
use of metaphors), and I can think of two basic types:
a.   specific different meanings, eg "hock", and
b.   meanings that are not precise, as exemplified by the haziness
regardi