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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Yeah, I guess that's what it boils down to. Generally is dependant on the adjective following it imho.
In that case isn’t it better to drop the ‘generally’ and instead just use that lower tier word outright? ‘You’re good’ would sit better with me than ‘You’re generally amazing’.
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Agreed. I think that might have something to do with most people wanting to present things in a more positive way than they are (even if they're already positive). I can't come up with a very good example right now. But most people would rather have 100p than 1 Pound.
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I mean, yes people can still use generally as a roundabout way to throw shade. But they can do that with any word as long as they redefine the definition of said word (you just wouldn't know about it). Cont.
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