· First book in the Bromeliad Trilogy · Children's book · Also for grown-ups · Humorous and easy to read The Truckers · Setting: Between 1980s and 1990s *In the fields *In a department store · Main characters: about 10 cm tall human-like creatures *Masklin - static brave and adventurous *Grimma - static *The Abbot - flat *Grannie Morkie - flat *Gurder - flat The Truckers · Starts off in the fields... · Desperate times - desperate measures · They arrive in a department store · No-one belives them of being from the outside! · The store is about to be demolished · The nomes start evacuating and steal a truck! The Truckers Quotes: "Outside! What's it like?" "Well It's sort of big"
Third, we sometimes say of a single expression that it is ambiguous, that is, that it has more than one meaning. (So expressions and meanings are not correlated one to one.) Fourth, we sometimes say that one expression's meaning is contained in that of another, as female and deer are contained in the meaning of "doe." An important special case here is that of one sentence's entailing another: "Harold is fat and Ben is stupid" entails "Ben is stupid." (There is joint entailment too: "Grannie is either in the holding cell or in court already" and "Grannie is not in the holding cell" together entail "Grannie is in court already," even though neither sentence alone entails that.) There are more exotic meaning facts as well. For example, some disputes or alleged disputes are merely verbal or "only semantic," unlike substantive disagreements over fact. X and Y do not disagree about what actually hap- pened; they dispute only over whether what happened counts as a "so-and-so."
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