 Grice observed that conversational implicatures are typically connected to what is said rather than the way it is said, so that “it is not possible to find another way of saying the same thing, which simply lacks the implicature in question” (1975: 39). The implicature of  (1)  is thus said to be nondetachable. Grice allowed exceptions, though, “where some special feature of the substituted version is itself relevant to the determination of an implicature” (see Grice’s “maxim of Manner” in  §6).  Metalinguistic implicatures—those that refer to the particular words the speaker  used[17]—are  also clearly detachable.