[lit-ideas] Re: Brit tourist suspected to have been murdered after being ...

  • From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:53:12 +0100 (BST)

It's The Independent of South Africa -- online

www.iol.co.za

> An unfortunate inversion of events has 
> occurred,  according to The 
> Independent of 20 March, Hazel Parry notes

- there isn't a Hazel Parry who writes for the Indy (UK)


not that that affects the implicature problem

- On Sun, 27/3/11, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Brit tourist suspected to have been murdered after 
> being ...
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, 27 March, 2011, 17:43
> 
> 
> In a message dated 3/26/2011 3:36:21  P.M., jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> writes:
> Don't know nothing about ["after"  being] no
> "truth-functional".  
> 
> ----- This gave me the clue. By  replacing 'after' by
> 'before' we get a 
> more impeccable version than the one  McEvoy finds
> impeccable:
> 
> 
> 2. A British tourist who have been missing  for five
> days in Hong Kong is 
> suspected
> to have been murdered BEFORE being  found dead.
> 
> ---- In this way, we avoid the unwanted implicature that
> he  was murdered 
> on top (i.e. after) being found dead. And so on.
> 
> ----  Speranza
> ----------- my last, third, post today. This is a lazy
> afternoon but  not 
> THAT lazy.
> 
> ----
> 
> An unfortunate inversion of events has 
> occurred,  according to The 
> Independent of 20 March, Hazel Parry notes:  "A
> British  tourist who 
> has been missing for five days in Hong Kong is 
> suspected to have  
> been murdered after being found dead, police said 
> Sunday."  
> -------------- in M. Quinion, online, World Wide 
> Words
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