Grice's Markerese

This passage from Grice just brings tears to my eyes!

Let me read it for you. It is transcribed from this "How pirots karulise elatically" (Chapman, _Grice_ Palgrave):

"a pirot a can be said to potch of
some obble x as fang or feng; also
to cotch of x, or some obble o,
as fang or feng; or to cotch of one obble o
and another obble o1 as being fid
to one another."

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THIS is how abstract Grice can get, and more.

Note

obble -- object, of course.

but 'fid'. This is a bit like Carnap on "Homo habet canem" being of the form Rxy.

Chapman's gloss then:

"Pirots are much like ourselves, and inhabit a world of obbles very much like our own world. To potch is something like to perceive, and to cotch is something like to think."

MORE ABSTRACTION:

"Feng and fang are possible descriptions, much like our adjectives"

--- his 'beta' ("shaggy") in his earlier William James lectures.

"Fid is a possible relation between obbles"

as in Carnap Rxy.

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And so on.