This section of the article is interesting: Philosopher Paul Grice suggested a handful of simple rules that apply ‘to conversation as such, regardless of its s

This section of the article is interesting: Philosopher Paul Grice suggested a handful of simple rules that apply ‘to conversation as such, regardless of its subject matter’ [106]. The Gricean individual is a rational agent who is expected to quickly provide just enough information, not more, nor less, than necessary and relevant in any given communicative situation. When such an individual flouts one of these principles, their interlocutors will infer the intended meaning of an utterance is different from its literal meaning. That's a useful observation. It brings out the problems of business-speak and political-speak. It isn't entirely a language distinction. It's possible to obfuscate and blither in many languages. Orwell observed this decades ago. Some languages seem to encourage it more than others, but that may be a linguistic style thing more than a language thing. LLMs are sometimes given prompt preludes to push them into a Gricean mode. Without an incentive, LLMs tend to go into stochastic parrot mode and blither.