[blml] convention

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
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[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Willner" <willner at cfa.harvard.edu>
To: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] convention


> 
> Showing any or none of the three meanings or 
> overall strength is irrelevant to the classification, 
> but if a call shows anything else _besides_ those 
> things, then it's a convention.  There's also a WBFLC 
> minute saying, in effect, that negative inferences don't 
> make a call a convention.
> 
+=+ This is right. Whether or not the call conveys a 
meaning within the three descriptions in the definitions,
if it conveys a meaning, or an additional meaning, that
is not within those descriptions it is conventional.
                                   ~ Grattan ~  +=+