[lit-ideas] A While Awhile
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:14:37 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 7/15/2013 12:56:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> It's been a while (or is that "awhile"?)
I think the implicatures are different. Or rather, each expression triggers
its own:
i. "It's been a while since ..." implicates that you keep a count on your
whiles: cfr.
----- it's been two whiles since.
ii. "It's been awhile since" carries no such implicature but one to the
effect that you prefer to avoid a blank space between 'a' and 'while'.
----
Alison Parker may disagree. Or then again, not.
Cheers,
Speranza
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