[lit-ideas] Re: Grice: where someone drowns determines their chance of survival
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 08:53:46 -0600
Huh. I just realized I haven't gotten my World of Words for a couple
months. I must rectify this...
Julie Campbell
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 7:52 AM, <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Grice: where someone drowns dtermines their chance of survival
>
> From today's "World Wide Words" (c) Michael Quinion at
> http://www.worldwidewords.org.
>
> "Drowning, not waving? Several readers denied there was anything wrong with
> a headline in last week’s Sic! section: “Where someone drowns determines
> their chance of survival.” They argued that drowning isn’t necessarily
> fatal because victims can be resuscitated. I was so surprised that I
> checked
> the verb in numerous dictionaries. All the definitions include the word
> die,
> which reflects the everyday sense of the verb. Drowning may indicate a
> process but drown is surely final. I wonder if a shift in meaning is
> developing under the lexicographical radar?"
>
> The issue may be one of conversational implicature (rather than logical
> entailment) Or not.
>
> I like 'shift of meaning' -- at least it's not 'shift of sense'! (Grice,
> "Do not multiply senses beyond necessity").
>
> Cheers,
>
> Speranza
>
>
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