Yes, I did, last week at the gas station.
“Just so you know — the card reader at the first pump isn’t working. I tried two cards.”
“How isn’t it working?”
“It doesn’t read the cards.”
[True, the machine could have eaten my card. But in that case, I would have said “The card reader ate my card.” And I wouldn’t have been able to try a second card. The technical term for this sort of stuff: conversational implicature.]
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Did I really have this conversation?
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