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Saturday, March 26, 2011

A Griceian Censor

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.

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