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''
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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