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@lemmy.mlI wonder what’s the largest that defederates with the most.
Almost definitely beehaw
I also wonder what’s the largest that gets defederated the most.
Probably exploding-heads. If not, then lemmygrad.
Definitely sh.itjust.works. The largest instance that defederates with the fewest other instances (though they could still do better here - there's no reason to defederate either exploding-heads or lemmygrad), no email required on sign up, and a super chill vibe.
Definitely sh.itjust.works. The largest instance that defederates with the fewest other instances (though they could still do better here - there's no reason to defederate either exploding-heads or lemmygrad), no email required on sign up, and a super chill vibe.
It's not actually about being specific per se - it's about overtly mentioning details that are already assumed from context. Grice's maxims of quantity and relevance say that speakers only provide information when that information is important in some way and relevant to the discussion, so providing information that would otherwise be assumed means that information must be actively relevant to the conversation in some important way that warrants it being mentioned.
If you're interested, please do crosspost this (and any other linguistics memes you have) over to /c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
Do you have a source for this? Also, what sort of "exceptions" do you mean? German has cognates of most of the English inherited grammatical exceptions, and has many more classes of its own that aren't reflected in English.