[lit-ideas] Re: Disimplicature
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 05:40:40 -0700
On Aug 6, 2012, at 5:58 AM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> We know that Grice coined the implicature (well, 'implicatura', as any
> reader of the Short/Lewis Latin dictionary can testify) had been used by
> Sidonius, to mean 'entanglement'.
>
> Grice also coined 'disimplicature'.
>
> When you mean more than you say, you IMPLICATE.
> When you mean LESS than you say, you DISIMPLICATE.
To be clear: Trott is neither the Scot, nor the hammer thereof. That would be
Hoy, the Scot..., who isn't a Hammer. And, like most normal people, Tweddle
has no time for twaddle.
David Ritchie,
watching neither bikes nor bars,
near Olympia.
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