The beauty of “hot” is that it is a relative term. Hot for whom?
It’s implicitly relative to the speaker and/or the listener. Claiming that because you didn’t specify one of those it’s from the perspective of an ice cube is just another example of the same thing: being “clever” by deliberately pretending that there’s no such thing as conversational implicature.
Having your words be literally accurate is not the spark of genius you think it is.
It’s implicitly relative to the speaker and/or the listener. Claiming that because you didn’t specify one of those it’s from the perspective of an ice cube is just another example of the same thing: being “clever” by deliberately pretending that there’s no such thing as conversational implicature.
Having your words be literally accurate is not the spark of genius you think it is.