"Those Guys In the White House Kitchen Said 'Heigh Ho'"

---- or Grice on informal conversations.

---- by JLS
---------- for the GC.

Grice proposes TWO candidates (both good candidates for the 'best-candidate' status) when it comes to distinguish between the centre and the periphery of meaning.

--- The first is 'formality' (vs. informality or slang). The second is 'dictiveness' (vs. roundabout ways of 'hinting' things).

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So it's "to call a spade a spade" with Grice. Similarly, the header should be, in less slangy terms, communicated by a conversational move that went,

"The President's advisers approved the idea."

But why is it that not even the dullest journalist is ever so dull?