[lit-ideas] What Is The World Coming To?

From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:53:41 EDT

In a message dated 3/25/2009 1:13:21 P.M.  Eastern Daylight Time, 
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
What *is* the world  coming to? 
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Have someone done a serious study in a reply to this?

I can  think:
 
(a) with negative implicature:
 
     -- the dogs. We're going to the dogs. We're  _coming_ to the dogs.
     -- its very end.
 
 
(b) with positive implicature
 
     -- roses?
 
     (as in "Gypsy"?)
 
Cheers,
 
JL Speranza
    Bordighera, etc. 
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