Timeline for "When I last saw him he was dying, but now you'd hardly know he'd been ill"
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| Oct 8, 2019 at 20:39 | history | edited | Araucaria - Him | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 8, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1181585176419328006 | ||
| Oct 8, 2019 at 13:49 | comment | added | Tuffy | That is interesting, because the Cambridge English Dictionary does not recognise the word ‘implicature’ at all. As far as I know, this word was coined by the American linguistic philosopher Searle. It’s meaning is well explained in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: plato.stanford.edu/entries/implicature. The verb ‘die’ is an awkward one, to be sure. We are all ‘dying’ from the moment of birth. It is often a hyperbolic idiom (dying of hunger/boredom. But to say “I am dying” literally, I claim to be obout to die quite soon. If I don’t, I was wrong. | |
| Oct 8, 2019 at 12:31 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 8, 2019 at 10:56 | history | asked | GJC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |