"Some people like Witters"

Oddly, I was discussing in CHORA this dictum by Austin.

Austin said, according to Grice,

"Some like Witters, but Moore's MY man".

This has been also quoted, otiosely, as

"Some people like Witters, but Moore is my man".

---- I take 'people' to be otiose. Surely we are not saying that some _elephants_ like Wittgenstein. Plus, in Grice's version (recollection of Austin's dictum) the implicature is "philosophers" (some 'philosophers' like Witters).

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J is absolutely right about all about Witters.

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Grice would quote from Witters occasionally. His (Witters's) style is so cryptic that it becomes amusing.

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Witters loved a Soviet AND a Western (as Malcolm recalled -- by 'western' meaning 'western film', i.e. cowboy film, in the vernacular).

Etc.

Oddly, to refer to "Moore" as "man" is colloquial. "_my_ man" is even MORE colloquial.