[lit-ideas] Re: Implicatures of "Feel"
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 07:55:19 +0900
Touché
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On 2010/09/01, at 6:26, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> See my qualifier "no one _______STARTS____ a sentence"
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:15 PM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> How about, for example, "It is, I feel, the right thing to do"?
>
> Also, practically speaking, isn't "I feel" used in a number of overlapping
> ways, e.g., to mark a proposition as opinion and to insulate it from
> criticism by appealing to the old maxim, "There is no accounting for
> feelings"?
>
> Joh
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On the realistic side, NO one ever utters a sentence starting with "I feel"
> without the next word being either 'that' or, most definitely, mass
> proportionally with an adjetive. [everyday/normal] People simply don't use
> 'feel' in the way you guys are arguing about... so... give it up.
>
> odious Gricean earner,
> p
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