[lit-ideas] Re: The Importance of Being Only
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:53:26 -0600
Only I saw her yesterday.
I only saw her yesterday.
I saw only her yesterday.
I saw her only yesterday.
I saw her yesterday only.
I've always loved the word "only"
The only Mike Geary in Memphis
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM, <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/18/2010 4:00:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> People have been spreading bogus numbers around, suggesting that the
> President's trip to Asia cost $200 million per day. Friedman corrects
> this
> misapprehension, adding the following actual yardsticks: the war in
> Afghanistan costs only about $190 million a day and Bill Clinton's trip to
> Africa,
> more than ten years ago, cost only "about $5.2 million a day."
>
> -----
>
> I think J. D. Atlas has written on this, from a Gricean perspective. He
> argues that 'only' adds only to the IMPLICATURE. Never to the explicature:
>
> "She is a whore"
>
> "She is only a whore".
>
> "only" does not _add_ to the *semantics* -- only the pragmatics.
>
> Speranza
> Swimming-Pool Library, etc.
>
>
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