The 74 Million – Lyn Tieu and Jacopo Romoli
“When we communicate, there is often just as much meaning in what we don’t say as in what we say overtly. For example, if I say “Sally coloured the circle or the triangle”, you will probably take this to mean she coloured only one of them, not both, even though I didn’t say so explicitly. In linguistics, we call this implied not both meaning a “scalar implicature”. Scalar implicatures have some interesting properties. In particular, they show up with certain positive sentences, but disappear when those sentences are made negative.” (more)