 Grice (1975: 37ff) called implicatures like  [5b]  generalized conversational implicatures (“GCIs”). The term is appropriate because  (5a)  can be used to implicate  [5b]  in a wide variety of contexts. Grice characterized generalized implicatures as those that “would normally (in the absence of special circumstances)” be carried by “the use of a certain form of words”. Levinson’s (2000: 11–12, 16–22, 42–46) characterized GCIs similarly as “default inferences”—implicatures we normally and automatically infer in the absence of evidence to the  contrary.[14]  These characterizations are too strong in one respect. There is nothing abnormal about the use of  (5a)  in (6), where Gina would normally implicate [6a] rather than  [5b].