+1. Sentences have truth conditions.
+
+2. If "John read the book" is true, then
+ John read something,
+ Someone read the book,
+ John did something to the book,
+ etc.
+
+3. If "John read the damn book",
+ all the same entailments follow.
+ To a first approximation, "damn" does not affect at-issue truth
+ conditions.
+
+4. "Damn" does contribute information about the attitude of the speaker
+ towards some aspect of the situation described by the sentence.
+
+
Expressives such as "damn" have side effects that don't affect the
at-issue value of the sentence in which they occur. What this claim
says is unpacked at some length here: <http://tinyurl.com/cbarker/salt/interaction/salt.pdf>.