One of the concepts I found useful was is the vagueness and ambiguity. These two seems like have the same meaning but is totally different from each other because a word or phrase is said to be ambiguous if it has at least two specific meanings and a word or phrase is considered vague if the meaning is not clear.
An example for vague would be this:
My friends and I went to the mall and while we were walking around, we saw a group of females walking towards us and right when they passed us by , one of my friend said, "Damn, that girl is hot."
What my friend said is vague because my other friends and I didn't know which girl he was talkin about because there were five of them, until we asked him which girl was he talkin about. He didn't exactly point out which girl he was talking about.
As for ambiguity, the site gave few examples for it.
After Hubert Humphrey lost the election to Richard Nixon, he said, "I'd always wanted to run for president in the worst way, and now I have."
"In the worst way" is ambiguios because it could mean "very much" or "very poorly."
I like how you also picked Vagueness and Ambiguous. These two terms seems exactly a like but they are totally different. The website gave me a better understand of what these two terms actually meant and also provided an example to better clarify what is what. Although there were soo many to choose from, I chose these two because I also learned them in the Esptein book, but i wanted to understand these two terms more clearly. It helped me understand the definitions of both and allowed me to make an example for one. I liked the way you provided both an example and definitions so that the readers knew which was which.
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