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Full Idea
Grice's maxim of manner requires one to be as brief as possible.
Gist of Idea
Grice's maxim of manner requires one to be as brief as possible
Source
report of H. Paul Grice (Some Models for Implicature [1967]) by Ofra Magidor - Category Mistakes 5.2
Book Ref
Magidor,Ofra: 'Category Mistakes' [OUP 2013], p.115
A Reaction
An alternative maxim of conversation is that there should not be long silences between contributions - which would probably result if the contributions are all curtly abbreviated.