This seems a good characterisation of the way that “guess culture” isn’t “one echo”, but “one or more echoes”. A lot of guess culture seems predicated on ideas like “we certainly wouldn’t just say X, because that would be frightfully uncomfortable for everyone, but we wouldn’t say Y either, because B would have to reply either affirmative or negative which would make C feel like we haven’t considered how C’s response would make D feel...” I don’t know, I find it hard to model guess culture accurately, but it certainly feels to me like native guess culture speakers model a lot more than one echo in their expectations. You could take this as making ask culture feel all the more revolutionary.
This seems a good characterisation of the way that “guess culture” isn’t “one echo”, but “one or more echoes”. A lot of guess culture seems predicated on ideas like “we certainly wouldn’t just say X, because that would be frightfully uncomfortable for everyone, but we wouldn’t say Y either, because B would have to reply either affirmative or negative which would make C feel like we haven’t considered how C’s response would make D feel...” I don’t know, I find it hard to model guess culture accurately, but it certainly feels to me like native guess culture speakers model a lot more than one echo in their expectations. You could take this as making ask culture feel all the more revolutionary.