Perlocutionary force exemplified
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Today's Zits:
Though "How many times do I have to tell you" is pretty conventionalized by now…
February 11, 2012 @ 9:41 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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Today's Zits:
Though "How many times do I have to tell you" is pretty conventionalized by now…
February 11, 2012 @ 9:41 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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Nicholas Waller said,
February 11, 2012 @ 3:37 pm
I'd have thought "how many _more_ times do I have to tell you" would have been more appropriate here.
DJ said,
February 11, 2012 @ 8:33 pm
@ Nicholas Waller: But what mom ever says that? Besides, it works out to a total…