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To an extent, sure, but he didn't say "unambiguous", just "less ambiguous". In fact, just since 1987 a "less ambiguous" natural language has been developed: Lojban (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban).

Lojban still has semantic ambiguities, but it is free of the syntactic variety (think "Time flies", which could either be a command or a statement) and thus is a less ambiguous language than most others.

I still haven't gotten around to learning it though. Someday.




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