the ambiguity of all language

Over at Koinonia, Bill Mounce asks the question, Who reigns in the millenial kingdom? Maybe not the kind of question you worry about too much, but his point is more about language and translation and interpretation. His concluding paragraph makes salutary points:

I am coming to believe that language is the stringing of one ambiguity after another. Having served on two translation teams has only strengthened this conviction; what one person hears is not always what the other person hears. An important point for all preachers to ponder. For the exegete, we must see that language is not always precise, and so our exegesis must see the range of meaning for a word or grammatical construction, and then as always make a decision in light of the context.