"You scalar implicature!"

Language Log 2024-11-29

Summary:

Today's SMBC: Mouseover title: "Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT to use." The AfterComic: I'm always happy to see Linguistics singled out for praise, but in fairness, technical terminology works pretty well from whatever domain: Exocrine secretion! Weak anisotropic reflection! Torridonian alluvium! Conjugacy-closed subgroup! Homotopical nilpotency! Simplicial foliation! Hypersoft bijection! Facticious akataphasia! […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67139&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-scalar-implicature

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

11/29/2024, 09:49

Date published:

11/29/2024, 06:35