Gricean carpet bombing (was: RE: Digest Number 135

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

Jordan:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:58:23AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > Nick Nicholas scripsit:
> [...]
> > > ... Remind me why {mi djica loi mikce} was rejected as a general 
> > > solution? Because whatever it was sinks this too, I think.. 
> > 
> > Because you are not willing to settle for sundry unattached doctor parts 
> > IOW, some Doctor-Substance will not do 
> 
> Grice fixes that, though. If I wanted doctor parts I'd say mi djica
> tu'a lo pagbu be lo mikce 

All the same, the topic of this bit of discussion is how to unambiguously
express the notion of Collective (i.e. without recourse to Grice). Grice
is like carpet bombing -- hugely powerful but you can never be absolutely 
sure of hitting a precise target.

--And.