MCV 30 Under 30 2021 
One thing that always bugs me... when you say ‘generally’, do you usually mean it in the positive, glass-half-full sense of ‘consistently’, or in the glass-half-empty sense of ‘with exceptions’?
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I don’t know that there is really a universal truth with it being used and received so subjectively. Someone might mean is neutrally, but we can’t guarantee it’ll be received that way. What’s more, what would be a neutral usage?
If I say ‘you’re awesome’, that’s a firmly positive statement. If I say ‘you’re generally awesome’, half of recipients will think you went out of your way to add doubt, whereas half will think you did to to bolster its truth.
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Using that example, is there a way that it could be neutral? Any less than positive is surely negative, no? Or maybe that’s just my flawed psyche at play.
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I see it this way. Awesome in general is a positive statement, yes. But you could also be brilliant or very awesome. That's definitely more positive than just awesome. So with that in mind 'generally awesome' could go both ways. But maybe I'm being too analytical about this.
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