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Also, I think you're misrepresenting Rolf on this point. He's talked
about conversational pragmatic implicature over many years and
I think this is what he's on about. I could be wrong on that
point, of course. ...
... I personally think that ``uncancellable''The problem is that major shifts happen gradually. "Bad" meaning "good" is much more widespread than it was in the 1960's, it is now common among young white people here in England, and no doubt it is also included in up to date dictionaries. I'm sure that the meaning of "nice" changed similarly gradually. At what point do we say this has changed from a special usage which can cancel the uncancellable (so not "conversational pragmatic implicature") to semantic meaning? I suppose in English we just might say that this happens when some respected dictionary or book of style accepts the usage, but there was no such books for biblical Hebrew.
is a poor choice of word to describe what is, I think, what most
people would understand by the dictionary meaning of a word, but
in one sense it is right. One-offs and limited colloquialisms don't
change the dictionary. So, in one sense, the meaning is not cancelled.
It takes a major shift like what has happened to the word ``nice''
to cancel the past accepted usage.
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