> This isn't something I'd endorse doing often. Grice was making a descriptive statement about the linguistic pragmatics of human conversation; he was absolutel

> This isn't something I'd endorse doing often. Grice was making a descriptive statement about the linguistic pragmatics of human conversation; he was absolutely not saying that this is how people 'should' speak. Advice is directional, not absolute. If someone struggles with correctly identifying and adopting the shared interpersonal protocols most people use in society, a documented, descriptive guide to those protocols can be used as a guide. Even if Grice’s project was to document and model the set of rules that “everyone” implicitly knows and follows, if you’re not a part of that “everyone” and you struggle to reach understanding when communicating with others, maybe Grice’s maxims can explain what you missed.