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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.