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Why does it seem the letter خ is the only consonant that precedes an unpronounced و in Persian?
The Indo-European and Indo-Iranian cluster *sw- becomes *hw- or *xw- in proto-Iranian. The latter remains in Middle Persian and Early New Persian. It is retained in the Arabo-Persian script, but is ...
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Is there a name for when someone tries to feign their statement had no specific meaning?
I think you're looking for (conversational) implicature, where you express a meaning indirectly. A famous example in linguistics is Have you stopped beating your wife?, which states that you have ...
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