[lit-ideas] Re: The Inventor of Perspective, According to Geary
- From: "Luigi Speranza" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "jlsperanza" for DMARC)
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 08:27:45 -0400
On May 10, 2016, at 12:27 AM, david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ask the Pope. Who is a good one, so they say. ... Implicate that!
Oddly we were discussing the implicatures of
i. p, so they say.
According to Tarski (I'm translating from the Polish), "to say, "Snow is white,
so they say" triggers the conversational implicature about my Polish aunt. When
I use 'they' I always refer to my family."
In Geary's example
ii. Perspective is awesome, so they say.
he prefers the use of what he calls 'scare quotes':
iii. Perspective, whomever invented it, is, so 'they', my family, say, is
'awesome'.
Cheers
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