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Re: "Barely but booleanly"

From:Sai Emrys <sai@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 18:57
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:05 AM, And Rosta <and.rosta@...> wrote:

> I don't understand what it means. "Barely X", which means "almost not X", > itself entails "X (is the case)". Give some exx without "barely" in. >
It is indeed entailed. The pragma though is that I wanted to emphasize this fact (rather than the default pragma of minimizing its salience). - Sai