Nunberg in today's NYT:
It is not necessary [by Griceian canons] to use a period. So to make an
explicature of an implicature invites a meta-implicature.
Nunberg compares
i. I am not going.
ii. I am not going -- period.
Numberg:
"It's a mark. It can be aggressive. It can be emphatic. It can mean, 'I have
nothing to say'"
Cheers
Speranza
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