 Next, conventional implicatures, that is lexical meanings that, according to Grice (1975), do not contribute to what is said, have, at first glance, less to do with defaultness: they are entrenched, non-cancellable and form-dependent (detachable), and they cannot be calculated from maxims, principles or heuristics (Horn 1988: 123). However, more recent inquiries into the related category of expressives gives more scope for pursuing defaultness. Slurs are, arguably, offensive by default but their derogatory import does not carry across to context of banter and camaraderie. As to whether the expressive content is an implicature or part of what is said, the matter is still hotly discussed (see e.g., Richard 2008; Sileo 2017). In what follows, I try to bring some order into this unwieldy term vis-à-vis the semantics/pragmatics distinction and finish with some reflections on its usefulness for semantics and pragmatics.