90. Sentence "War is war" is a tautology. It is uninformative by virtue of its semantic content. In uttering it the speaker flouts the first maxim of quantity: the contribution to conversation is not sufficiently informative.
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- 46. The sentence "Boys are boys." is a tautology. It is uninformative by virtue of its semantic content. In uttering it the speaker flouts the first maxim of ___________ ____: the contribution to conversation is not sufficiently informative.
- In the first two decades after the Second World War, the US Government adopted a policy of Cold War and “Containment” in its relationship with the Soviet Union.( )
- The event took place during() A: First World War B: the First World War C: World War the One D: the World War One
- The First World War was an imperialist war as well as a _____ war because it was not confined only to Europe. It lasted _____ years.
- The ______ turned out to be America’s longest war it had ever fought. A: First World War B: Second World War C: Korean War D: Vietnam War