It´s fun that Kramer be criticising the tr., and rightly so, of Sidonius, "implicatura". Had W., who tr. Sidonius´s "implicatura" read about Grice, the history of Latin lexicography would be other!
But seriously, Horn once wrote in an essay on Dionysius, (words): "What did worry me for some time was that my spellchecker would correct my Gricean to Grecian every time. I have now given up -- since hey, I wrote "Greek Grice," too, so I should know better".
I get so infuriated when Horn calls hisself (he wouldn´t dare calling hiMself) a "neo-Gricean" that I replied,
"Surely your otiose prefix is not meant
to implicate that Grice is more of
DWEM that he was_"
"No, no more", he answered.
For we find that most of Grice´s theory is Grecian in nature, if not Latin. Sidonius, Cicero, Dionysios, Plato, Aristotle, -- were all talking conversational pragmatics, without ever _guessing_!
My brother is a literalist. Some people think "literalism" is a mark of autism, but this does not apply to my brother, "I guess I love you" he was told. "I cannot think how you can guess that". But with Aristotle, etc. it´s pretty easy to see how they _were_ failing to guesse (this or that).
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