[lit-ideas] Re: Grice to the Mill
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:26:00 EDT
In a message dated 6/22/2009 6:21:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
There is an old trick question "How often are there 28 days in February?"
to which the correct answer is supposed to be "always", because even in a
Leap Year there are still at least 28 days. But the 'implicature' of such a
question is surely that we read it as asking "How aften are there only 28
days, and no more or less, in February?".
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I cannot see why what holds for a leap year cannot hold for Joan Rivers.
In "Pirates of Penzance", Gilbert has it correct: Frederick is 20, and
thus unable to marry his fiancee.
No, I've never been in a perjury case (so far), if you ask me (and even if
you don't).
JLS
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