[breezybottom]

That's something only someone who's never studied advanced math could say. Math notation and jargon can be extremely ambiguous and overloaded. "Normal" has about 20 different meanings.

[math_dandy]

Certainly overloaded but rarely ambiguous. Context will determine which notion of “normal” applies.

[breezybottom]

"Context dependent" is basically the definition of ambiguity.

[chongli]

No, I'd say ambiguous means "context dependent" and the context is unclear.

Pronouns like you/me/he/she/they/them are context dependent in everyday English writing but they're only ambiguous when the context is unclear, otherwise most people have no trouble dealing with them at all!

[math_dandy]

I guess what I’m saying is that since there’s always a context, ambiguity stemming from uninspired naming is never an issue in practice.

[overfeed]

Strives to minimize =/= completely eliminates

[breezybottom]

I haven't seen much of this "striving". Notation use is largely passed down from instructor to student, and there isn't much interest in the mathematical community to standardize.