I got 99 problems and can’t find my notebook to write them all down, so I guess that makes 100
Speakers take a lot for granted. That is, they presuppose information. As we wrote this, we presupposed that readers would understand English. We also presupposed as we wrote the last sentence, repeated in (1), that there was a time when we wrote it, for otherwise the fronted phrase “as we wrote this” would not have identified a time interval.
(1) As we wrote this, we presupposed that readers would understand English.
Further, we presupposed that the sentence was jointly authored, for otherwise “we” would not have referred. And we presupposed that readers would be able to identify the reference of “this”, i.e., the article itself. And we presupposed that there would be at least two readers, for otherwise the bare plural “readers” would have been inappropriate. And so on.
photo { Pieter Hugo, Escort Kama, Enugu, Nigeria from Nollywood, 2008 }
