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Are programmers and similar more likely to "break" the second Gricean maxim? From the link: Quantity of Information * Make your contribution as informativ
by GFischer 16y ago
Are programmers and similar more likely to "break" the second Gricean maxim?
From the link: Quantity of Information
* Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange).
* Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.
I recall a discussion here about the quantity of information we tend to give relative to the "average" person
- sp332 16y agoI think people in general, once they start talking about a subject they are passionate about, will start giving way more information than necessary.
- spiffytech 16y agoI think that was Philip Guo's "Geek Behaviors" piece. He writes some pretty interesting stuff: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078529 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078529