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    It is not the case that Many ordinary speech acts—irony, understatement, diplomatic hedging—succeed communicatively despite the speaker intentionally withholding complete transparency about their intent.

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    • 1.When listeners misinterpret irony or hedging, the communicative act fails—yet transparency would have prevented this.
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    • 2.Intentional opacity creates asymmetric knowledge, privileging speakers who can deny implications if challenged later.
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    • 3.Calling oblique speech 'successful communication' conflates pragmatic convenience with genuine mutual understanding.
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    • 1.Shared cultural codes allow listeners to reliably decode non-literal meanings without explicit declarations of intent.
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    • 2.Complete transparency often fails communicatively—stating 'this is irony' destroys its rhetorical force and social function.
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    • 3.Successful communication requires mutual understanding, not mutual access to speakers' inner mental states.
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