John told us he had lost his job, which put a damper on the celebrations.

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

We have observed that implicatures are a standard strategy for overcoming apparent floutings of the maxims of quality.

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