Impiegatura
Sort of fascinating that, if I'm not mistaken, 'implicare' gives English, 'employ'. Hence, Grice's implicature, in Italian would be impiegatura. In Latin it is of course 'inplicatura' or 'implicatura', which WAS used, as we know by Sidonius -- Loeb Classical Library.
---- the subject line is apres a talk by Horn in Lombardy.
that would indeed cover the fairy tales like..
ReplyDeleteEinstein times how long it took his hat to dry when he came in out of the rain. He also times how long it took his hair to dry when he didn’t wear his hat on a rainy day. His hair dried more quickly. So he didn’t wear his hat in the rain anymore.