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
From the link: Quantity of Information
I recall a discussion here about the quantity of information we tend to give relative to the "average" person