 By “saying”, Grice meant not the mere utterance of words, but saying that something is the case, another illocutionary speech act. Barb could have said the same thing by uttering different words. As Grice realized, “say” is used more or less  strictly.[3]  Thus if Ed says “The largest planet is a gas giant”, we will sometimes count him as saying that Jupiter is a gas giant. We will follow Grice in using “say” more narrowly, requiring that what a speaker says be something that the sentence uttered conventionally means (except when an indexical or ellipsis is  used).  So we will take Ed to have implicated that Jupiter is a gas giant by saying that the largest planet is. Stating or asserting that p entails both saying and meaning that  p.[4]  When Yogi Berra, famous for his malapropisms, said “Texas has a lot of electrical votes”, he said that Texas has a lot of electrical votes; but since that was not something he meant, it was not something he asserted. Don did not mean what he said for a different reason. So he too said but did not assert that the weather is lovely.