Timeline for Difference between prepositions in "...killed during/in the war"
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| Jun 14, 2019 at 16:21 | vote | accept | Amber Mishra | ||
| Jun 9, 2019 at 19:15 | comment | added | V2Blast | Also, the "Quantity Maxim" refers to Paul Grice's conversational maxims. | |
| S Jun 9, 2019 at 8:29 | history | suggested | richardb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Change gender, Rani = Queen.
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| Jun 9, 2019 at 8:16 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jun 9, 2019 at 3:43 | comment | added | ruakh | For anyone confused by John Lawler's comment: linguists use "imply" in the way that mathematicians do, whereby "X implies Y" means that if X is true, then Y is certainly true as well. This answer, by contrast, is using the word "imply" in the ordinary (non-technical) sense, whereby "X implies Y" means that X gives the impression of Y without stating it outright. The disagreement is because a sentence like "Five of them died during the war: three in battle, two from the flu pandemic" shows that "during the war" does not certainly preclude "in the war". | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 19:43 | comment | added | John Lawler | No, I don't think it would necessarily imply it; it would leave the implication open, though, and there might be a Quantity Maxim convention that would invite it. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 16:36 | history | answered | Colin Fine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |