high-context
Britishadjective
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The fact some people are posting about being demure, cutesty and mindful in a serious way shows "how nuances are lost when messages travel from the high-context in-groups to the low-context outgroups", he says.
From BBC
“The NFT conversation can be particularly high-context, from technical jargon, our own memes, and the random menagerie of the latest projects and their respective animals,” Ong said.
From The Verge
By contrast, in high-context cultures, as in Asia, people may communicate more subtly.
From New York Times
It was, as the writer Siddharth Deb calls it, a “high-context culture.”
"We believe that communication among wearables will be increasingly high-context," says Kamijo.
From The Verge
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