 Pragmatic approaches to presupposition take the burden of projection off conventional triggering and allow for discourse structure to influence projection when triggers are placed in different contexts. One consequence of this view is that it can be applied cross-lingustically (e.g. Tonhauser et al 2013) without running into the issue of language-specific conventionalized triggers. Additionally it allows us to account for the projection of expressions that don’t display other properties that we associate with presupposition, for example appositives, expressives and honorifics (Potts 2005). In other words, there’s a reason why some things that aren’t presuppositions still behave like them.