Zwicky on implicature

“Implicature Troubles” – January 28, 2007 – Arnold Zwicky

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004105.html

"Features a cartoon in which a woman gets into trouble by mentioning that she played Uno with “two black guys,” leading to her friends calling her racist. Zwicky relates the cartoon to Grice’s concept of “conversational implicature” and says that this is a situation in which ONW is “(sort of) good advice,” since the woman could have omitted needless information and avoided trouble."