[sillymath]

theoretically you can introduce new words to be more precise, for example eskimos have many words for snow, from (1) that is because they use polysynthesis: a base word is attached to many different suffixes which change its meaning. So, while in the English language we might have a sentence describing snow, fusional languages such as the Eskimo-Aleut family will have long, complex words.

So, you may solve the ambiguity problem by introducing a huge numbers of words, that could help a LLM, but humans need a relatively small vocabulary tailored to everyday use. So the tradeoff is reducing ambiguity and not increasing a lot the vocabulary.

(1) https://readable.com/blog/do-inuits-really-have-50-words-for...

[bmacho]

A more common example is the meme about women and men colors. Women have magenta and salmon, while men call both pink. This has not much to do with linguistics or eliminating ambiguity.

You say 'pink', you mean 'pink', and if the other person wants to know which pink, they ask?

[bmacho]

edit: this was a strawmanning, colors are a non-issue. But there can be situations where there are 2 objects, you say a word to refer one of the objects, and your partner thinks about the other object, and neither of you think that it was ambiguous, so you don't clarify until it's too late. Like there is a dead bear and a bear cub, you say 'bring the bear' and you mean the cub, and they mean the dead bear.