So at thanksgiving diner a lot of possible topics are being brought up that everyone is trying to avoid. Person A might be the one bringing everything up. Person B’s response to person A can simply be “Here we go again” meaning that this person always does this every time by bringing up topics they clearly don’t want to talk about. This violates the quality, quantity, and relevance part of the mixims. It is not contributing any truth nor false information. Though it is short and not giving too much info it is not correlating to what was said by answering the question person A would have asked. And relevance as it does not exactly relate to what was asked by person A it was just an input. I do think it follows the be brief part of the manner maxims though. Because you can get any more subtle and brief than a sarcastic under the breath comment. While an example of what A could possibly say could be along the lines of “How is work/school going?” or “Have you gotten vaccinated yet?”. Just some examples that would make sense for person B to respond the way they did.

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