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+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>.