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Monday, February 8, 2010

The Long-Circuited Implicature

Horn and others have spoken (and written) on the short-circuit implicature. The common or garden, as they elsewhere call it, conversational implicature.

The long-circuited implicature is that hateful phrase you hear sometimes:

"To make a short story long".

Etc.

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