▲ | aleph_minus_one 5 days 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. |