Quinion:
""Censor", by the way, has its modern English meaning because the
magistrates who conducted the census and collected taxes were also
responsible for maintaining public morals. Busy men."
Why do I call this an adjacent or tangential implicature:
Smith is a censor (in Latin -- censoris).
This is a census.
This is a census -- a survey, better-called. Because it was conducted by the censor.
Who is the censor?
The one who censures.
So, I submit that we have an adjacent implicature.
A censor censures. That is analytic and not an implicature, but an implicature.
But a censor produces a census -- is, on the other (bad) hand, an adjacent/tangential implicature, and as such should be avoided.
How do you avoid an adjacent implicature?
---- by taking the OTHER way.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
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