Monday, February 8, 2010

Scrumbled Gricean Eggs

Impenetrability! That's what _I_ say!'
`Would you tell me, please,' said Alice `what that means?`
`Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much
pleased. `I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject,
and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I
suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'
`That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone.

Ref.: Speranza, J. L. "Impenetrability", Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society.
Etc.

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