ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta
lady evoy
please have a nice new year
On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 at 17:09 Donal McEvoy <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
palma, apgsthe notion of implicature is normative hence uninteresting to anyone whowould give a 20 second period of thought to language understanding.>
Whether this claim is typical of the kind of claim Palma is apt to make,
as I think, we can take it as an example. Imagine it was a quotatn in an
exam, with an appended "Discuss."
Where would we start?
Perhaps: what exactly is the author's thesis? Is it that "implicature" is
"normative" and therefore "uninteresting" to proper "understanding" of
language? Is this 'thesis' based on the assumption that whatever is
"normative" is therefore "uninteresting" to proper "understanding" of
language? If so, how is such an assumption to be defended? If not, how is
its normativity enough to justify dismissal of "implicature" as
"uninteresting"? [The only interest in Palma's previous post was, as I
pointed out, 'implicatural' - so his own previous post sits uneasily with
his claiming implicature "uninteresting" to "understanding".]
These kinds of question can be multiplied, and they indicate that the
claim is one of bare assertion rather than part of any coherent argument.
After bare assertion, somewhat arrogantly expressed, Palma's post descends
into ungrammatical gibberish - so we might regard this claim as the
high-point of his post. [Unless we like the hurling of poorly expressed
invective so much that this is the high point of our day - as may be the
case for Palma.]
D
L
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*From:* adriano paolo shaul gershom palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
*To:* "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Friday, 29 September 2017, 12:39
*Subject:* [lit-ideas] Re: Implicatures and Explicatures
the notion of implicature is normative hence uninteresting to anyone who
would give a 20 second period of thought to language understanding.
I am quite hopeful t to ithat gricer and poppe will explain that palma is
not serious etc. while they watch this dude who plays football called dylan
and another cretin called chelsea (last name unknown)
looking forward to it &
שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה
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