Re: Ambiguity and Conciseness?

Rick Moen <rick-IyCrq+X4Fdq2oZ/[email protected]> Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:22:24 -0700

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Quoting Steve Litt ([email protected]):

> When discussing technical documentation or lack thereof, is it correct
> to say that ambiguity and conciseness are opposites?

No.  These are unrelated concepts.

But what on _earth_ is the context of this?

Conciseness is pithiness, managing to say a thing in few words.
Ambiguity is vagueness, either deliberate or accidental fuzziness.

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