This cautious question-answering might feel unusual because it potentially violates Gricean norms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle https://

This cautious question-answering might feel unusual because it potentially violates Gricean norms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicature (In typical conversation, speakers often guess why a question was asked and try to respond to the inferred motivation.)