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Monday, August 9, 2010

The Chattering Class: An Implicatural Analysis

J:

"Listen to a CSPAN broadcast of like UK parliament session--very eloquent debates. Even the Labour people (the lay-boor issue as Keynes would say) speak a very refined Queen's anglo."

Right.

In a way, the more you chatter, the less you implicate.

I don't know of many politicians whose claim to fame was 'implicature'. Royalty, perhaps. Not really political-themed. As when Edward VIII was asked about his favourite opera.

"La Boheme"

--- "For its subject-matter or the music?"

"No, because it's the shortest."

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