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I have always though a complete analysis of the entire list of absolutist words would be beneficial to everyone. People are constantly using these words withou
by odammit 9y ago
I have always though a complete analysis of the entire list of absolutist words would be beneficial to everyone.
People are constantly using these words without totally understanding how they sound to others. This paper is full of interesting statistics that all people must be made aware of. Now that there is a link to suicide and depression nothing could be more important than sharing this with your whole network, every person.
I absolutely recommend reading the paper in full. It will definitely change everything about the way you speak. I’ll completely change the way I speak and never ever use these words again.
Well, except “constant” which I have to use to refer to software constants.
- asimpletune 9y agoI see what you’re doing...
- nixpulvis 9y agoWe all must only hope.
- swayvil 9y agoho ho ho
- eberkund 9y agoPlease seek professional help as soon as possible! Remember, it will get better.
- DataWorker 9y agoIt always does.
- flashmob 9y agoAfter reading this, also checked my writing for Absolutist words, and also will try to consciously avoid them, would be very annoying to see someone replying with "Please seek professional help as soon as possible!" ;-)
- jandrese 9y agoMaking some lifelong pledge to not use any of those words seems to be gross overkill. You can't even say something like: "I'm full because I ate the entire sandwich."
- gugagore 9y agoYou might be missing the joke in the OP. In any case the meaning of "full" in "I'm full" is colloquial and not absolutist. It's more like "I'm satisfied" and not "I'm stuffed" (which also isn't used literally).
- igravious 9y agoYou jest but absolutely every fractious argument I have starts with the words, “You always […]”, every such argument quickly turns sours, and inevitably without fail leads to me becoming depressed. For the love of God is it so difficult to say, “You nearly always […]” or “You almost always “…”] or some non-absolutist variant? Are all the people I argue with mentally unwell?
- Kluny 9y ago> absolutely every fractious argument Surely you mean... NEARLY every????
- rco8786 9y agoI go with “you often”. Or even better, rephrase the entire thing so that it can start with “it seems like” to avoid the accusatory tone altogether. You never do the dishes vs You often don’t help out with the dishes vs It seems like I’m always the one doing the dishes.
- muthdra 9y agoYeah, my first reaction was also "what about 'often'?"
- mikestew 9y agoHuge fan of “too often” myself, along with “not always <get that out of the way up front>, but many times...” I like your suggestion at the end of speaking from the speaker’s POV. I dunno, I first heard this pointed out in a 100 level psych class, a lot of folks here have been to college/uni. Hopefully this isn’t news to many. But we can be a forgetful lot.
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- kazinator 9y ago> without totally understanding Hee! Good one.