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And Rosta scripsit:
> Wonderful! So... coupling this with Grice:
>
> ellipsis can be filled in with whatever would be Griceanly most plausible.
>
> ergo, it would hardly ever be {no da} (though cf. "A: mi citka no da.
> B: mi go'i"). But sometimes it might be zi'o -- e.g. when talking
> about bottles and tigers.
A bridi with a GOhA at its heart uses different rules, and explicitly
imports all the (semantic) sumti of its antecedent unless they are
overridden: no glorking required.
As for Grice saying that if we can be bothered to say "zo'e", we can be
bothered to say something less specific, I doubt it. Saying "zo'e"
requires less thought.
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