Reply #3: Yep, my daughter and I got into an argument about such just last evening.

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She's a 24yo professional, but insists on using "always," and "never," and other similar terms when conversing. I said "y'know, just last week you were relatively happy with that person. Today the way you're speaking you'd think you never got along with that person. Perhaps if you didn't exaggerate things right now to the never/always arena . . ."

She interrupted, "well, I don't mean always and never, it just what everyone says, everyone knows it isn't really meant that way."

She literally then spent about 1.5 hours arguing that no one has a right get upset or offended when she says things like that and they should just understand that what she says isn't what she means.???? Go figure.

Now with texting and such I fear it will only get worse.