Re: A Simple Four Phrase Types Theory

Quoting Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>:

> I thought of calling the magical ones
> "superformative", because there are stronger than the
> performative ones. I've often tried to tell to toads:
> "You are not a toad, you are Pamela Anderson", but it
> seems that neither the toad, neither society, neither
> Pamela Anderson, agreed to that, and even myself, I
> was little convinced by the result.
>
> But if you use such a sentence in a fairy tale, most
> of the listeners will agree without problems.
Pamela Anderson in a fairly tale? Now, that's an image I want out of my mind!

                                                              Andreas