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Re: the zi'o joke
Further on both 1a and 2: once we get Gricean, the fact that we use {botpi
no da} rather than some other way of denying that a thing is a bottle
suggests (maybe implies) that we intend to convey the information that it
fails to be a bottle only in its lacking content. So, the originally
objectionable straightforward ways of saying "empty bottle" turn out to be
practically (though not strictly semantically) correct.