[lit-ideas] Re: "Jesus" is coming
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:02:31 EDT
In a message dated 8/14/2010 2:38:17 P.M., juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Sure -- how about these:
'Four dead' in NY state shooting
----- implicature: not necessary human. Deer? NY state is a BIG state. And
in shooting season it should not be an entailment that 'dead' are dead
PEOPLE.
Cattle 'cloned from dead animals'
----- Again, 'dead animal' is oxymoronic, and to prove that this clumsy
verbing came from a researcher at $tanford is all the most painful (he was
visiting from China). "Animals" are not always dead you know. The neologism
'clone' is emphatic enough -- and the subeditor is meaning, "I don't buy it".
Autumn 'delayed by cold winter'
------ implicature: since time is FIXED (Autumn ALLways begin on the 21st
Sept.), 'delay' is metaphorical. "Cold Winter" for Geary, is oxymoronic,
too.
Next.
(I follow Kelly B., the ed. of "The book of "unnecessary" quotations" in
proving that implicature saves the day).
Speranza -- Bordighera
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_'Four dead' in NY state shootin_
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10974807) g
_Cattle 'cloned from dead animals'_
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10951108)
_Autumn 'delayed by cold winter'_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10925016)
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