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I think you're proving my point. If the people I am talking to and the language I am using both demand precision in word choice, then I would be foolish to use

I think you're proving my point. If the people I am talking to and the language I am using both demand precision in word choice, then I would be foolish to use the wrong term and then say "well, you should have known what I meant." But that is a communication context, and there are other contexts where implications and assumed meanings are expected, and spelling everything out would be considered pompous, self-important, and ridiculous. Perhaps not in Germany? But certainly elsewhere (but i believe that in German the pronoun "sie" can require assumed context to understand).

aleph_minus_one 1y ago
> But that is a communication context, and there are other contexts where implications and assumed meanings are expected, and spelling everything out would be considered pompous, self-important, and ridiculous. > Perhaps not in Germany? But certainly elsewhere (but i believe that in German the pronoun "sie" can require assumed context to understand). I would indeed claim that in German such assumptions are often spelled out more explicitly than in English.