Timeline for "I'm dry" meaning "Would you buy me a drink?" What semantic or rhetorical term describes such usage?
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| Oct 20, 2014 at 22:13 | comment | added | Centaurus | I will upvote it so it can go to zero. It isn't what I asked but at least there was some effort to answer. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 18:01 | comment | added | mplungjan | I do not believe this answer deserved to be downvoted | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 14:52 | comment | added | mplungjan | I cannot think of another... | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 14:36 | comment | added | Centaurus | Not exactly what I asked. A term for situations when we say something and mean something else but the listener understands perfectly what we mean. No ambiguity. Literally, a whole sentence means something but we mean something else, and the listener understands what we mean. Perhaps you would like to edit your answer. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 14:26 | history | edited | mplungjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2014 at 14:20 | history | answered | mplungjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |