in -as of yet- unpublished, just "dug" out of apile notebook by H.P. Grice a new maxim was found.
It was named (by Grice) USQUE TANDEM or the hoping against hope. It reads DO NOT BORE THE AUDIENCEM. Chapman informed me that a new revised edition of teh 'ways of words' in planned for 2011
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