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[Ossicone]

It does in English.

[Ear of the Sphinx]

Yes, it suggests, but doesn't imply.

[Ossicone]

No, it all but requires that it isn't raining.
It is stronger than implication or suggestion.

[eldin raigmore]

No, it all but requires that it isn't raining.
It is stronger than implication or suggestion.

What a very strange (to me) and novel (to me) pragmatics that is!
I have never, before now, heard nor read that "I hope it will rain tomorrow" would have any implicature, through Gricean maxims or otherwise, that it isn't raining right now.
It had never occurred to me that it would.
It had never occurred to me that it would ever occur to anyone else.

Out of curiosity, and in case it explains the difference between your assumptions and mine, where (and among whom) did you learn to speak English? And, when? (in case it's a temporal dialect instead of a spatial one)?

[Czwartek]

No, it all but requires that it isn't raining.
It is stronger than implication or suggestion.

What a very strange (to me) and novel (to me) pragmatics that is!
I have never, before now, heard nor read that "I hope it will rain tomorrow" would have any implicature, through Gricean maxims or otherwise, that it isn't raining right now.

It doesn't completely rule out the possibility that it's raining now, but it's far more likely that the speaker would insert the word 'still' to indicate that future event referred to is also happening at the time of speaking. If it's not stated as happening at the present, it's usually because it isn't.

[Ceresz]

I'd read that as "It's not raining today, but I hope it will tomorrow."

"I hope it's still raining tomorrow" and "I hope it rains tomorrow as well" means that it's currently raining, and that you hope it will continue raining the day after the written statement.

[conlangconstructor]

I hope I am real.

[Ceresz]

Nah, you're just an illusion.

[hadad]

Alias(es): Hadad
Location: Upstate New York
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Occupation: Library Clerk
Interests: Conlanging; the history,culture and languages of the indoeuropean, the ancient near east, old europe, the afroasiatic tribes, etruscans, and the indus river valley; physics; astronomy; biology; anthropology; archaeology; linguistics
Favorite music: rock is my favorite
Political ideology: Libertarian, with an anarchist lean
Conlangs: Zebademe, Ishtarawi, Gu Di e (Gutian), and a quite a few dead conlangs.
Other hobbies: reading, writing, playing basketball (I thought we were computer nerds who never get out to play?), and other sports. I don't watch them, thats boring.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Hopefully as a graduate from college and a linguist on his way to success, or as a library clerk until I achieve that goal

[loftyD]

Alias(es): loftyD
Location: UK
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Occupation: Computer Club Support Worker
Interests: Languages, Linguistics, Computing, Programming, Web Developing, Conlanging
Favorite music: Turkish Rock FTW
Political ideology: Political Schizophrenic
Conlangs: Too many
Other hobbies: Travelling to exotic countries like Slovenia and Papua New Guinea...
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Older obviously!

[Bristel]

Alias(es): Bristel, Bristel Akina, Meiyo Shouou
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US
Date of birth: 1988
Gender: Male
Occupation: None
Interests: Linguistics, gaming, reading, Objectivism, pipe and cigar smoking
Favorite music: Favorite band is Muse. 1970's supergroups like Styx, 1980's AOR like Journey, New Wave, Depeche Mode. ABBA. Keane. Coldplay. J-Rock, L'arc-en-ciel, Gackt.
Political ideology: Libertarian. Social libertarian, economic conservative. Capitalist.
Conlangs: Hafoc (dead), Teskwan (active), Athanic (active)
Other hobbies: Travel, cooking, being a general silly-head.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Maybe stuck here. Maybe stuck in Australia. Maybe stuck in Seattle... maybe in Osaka.

[roninbodhisattva]

Aliases: roninbodhisattva, ronin319
Location: Michigan, USA
Date of birth: June 11, 1988
Gender: male
Occupation: student/research assistant (even though I'm not an actively enrolled student at this point, I'm still participating in classes)
Interests: linguistics (especially Native American, morphology, typology, historical linguistics, functionalism), conlanging, history, politics, board gaming, travel, language learning,
Favorite music: Varied. My favorite singer is Vienna Teng. Also, my last.fm
Political ideology: Progressive
Conlangs: none that well developed...tons of small sketches, currently one that will hopefully blossom into something
Other hobbies: Gaming (specifically board and ccg), reading, drinking beer, socializing, etc.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Hopefully in some kind of academic position at a university.

[cybrxkhan]

Guess I might as well:

Aliases: Cybrxkhan; cybrxkhan; Aidis; The Senate; The Imperial Senate; The Empire; The Emperor and Empress; The Emperor, Empress, and Imperial Senate
Location: The OC
Date of birth: 1992
Gender: male
Occupation: College Student
Interests: History, Creative Writing, Anthropology, Conworlding, a good story
Favorite music: Usually anything but lyrical music. Hard for something to be my favorite, but usually, if it has one of the following three, it works: 1. Throw in an epic chorus/orchestra. 2. Use a mix of dorian-aeolian mode (i.e. pseudo-medieval), or 3. Scarborough Fair
Political ideology: Moderate, although slightly leaning liberal for economic issues and conservative for social issues
Conlangs: Aidisese; several noobish ones that were dropped; hope to have basic outlines for most in my conworld someday
Other hobbies: Creative writing, reading history, walking
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Getting a PhD in history or finishing getting one
Religion: Atheistic Buddhism. I am skeptical of the more religious and mystical elements, but I generally agree with the philosophical premises.

[Bristel]

Date of birth: June 11, 1988

You are older than me by 5 days... >:

*not really angered* :D

[xinda]

Aliases: xinda
Location: NY/NJ, US
Date of birth: Dec 1992
Gender: male
Occupation: College Student
Interests: History, Architecture, Language Taxonomy, Conlanging (duh?)
Favorite music: dark/epic video game soundtracks, epic movie soundtracks, non-mainstream pop, modern classical
Political ideology: Liberal, possibly socialist
Conlangs: Dibriksian, Sydunam, Vdangku>Nengta&Utakwu
Other hobbies: Drawing, wikipediaing, sitting, sleeping,
Where do you see yourself in ten years? possibly in an architectural firm, very likely in another country
Religion: Atheist, grandparents' folk religion/confucianism/buddhism/daoism for fun

[conlangconstructor]

I've recently taken a political quiz with the following result:
Economic issues: +2.56 left
Social issues: +0.68 libertarian
Foreign policy: +0.05 neo-con
Cultural identification: +0.48 conservative

Other hobbies: Travel, cooking, being a general silly-head.

Silly :P
BTW, get ready for that Milvan introduction! I'm planning on posting it tomorrow

[Bristel]

I've recently taken a political quiz with the following result:
Economic issues: +2.56 left
Social issues: +0.68 libertarian
Foreign policy: +0.05 neo-con
Cultural identification: +0.48 conservative

Other hobbies: Travel, cooking, being a general silly-head.

Silly :P
BTW, get ready for that Milvan introduction! I'm planning on posting it tomorrow

Cool \o/

[sirgryfang]

Alias(es): None TMK/
Location: C-Bus, Ohio (USA)
Date of birth: 09/30/1882
Gender: Male
Occupation: Boring office Job...
Interests: RPGs, CCGs, Programming, ... General Geekiness
Favorite music: All but country... Electronic is my favorite though.
Political ideology: Frustrated... I only truly hope that everyone is making informed and wise decisions when they vote (I am American).
Conlangs: None developed so far... however I have a working computer again after 2 months without.
Other hobbies: See "Interests"
Where do you see yours/elf in ten years? In the future hopefully. I think it would be a little rude of me to start time travel at such an inopportune time. I mean I could wait a little, you know.

[Nortaneous]

I've recently taken a political quiz with the following result:
Economic issues: +2.56 left
Social issues: +0.68 libertarian
Foreign policy: +0.05 neo-con
Cultural identification: +0.48 conservative

Economic issues: +1.99 left
Social issues: +5.56 libertarian
Foreign policy: -4.54 anti-war
Culture: -0.07 liberal

Favorite music: All but country... Electronic is my favorite though.

Really? Everything but country? So you like harsh noise, witch house, power electronics, blues, avant-garde jazz, minimalist neoclassical, and anti-folk? :P

[sangi39]

Well to join in with the political quizness:

Economic issues: +5.77 Left
Social issues: +3.1 Libertarian
Foreign policy: -7.45 Anti-War
Culture: -7.05 Liberal