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Re:Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, ... by jandrese on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:53AM (#16325831)
Making 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."

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Re:Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, ... by gugagore on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:56AM (#16325868)
You 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).

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Re:Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, ... by jandrese on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:11PM (#16326020)
The word "entire" is in the list too.
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Re:Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, ... by rczhang on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:39PM (#16326332)
The original comment is very tongue in check, it contains many absolutist words itself: "always", "complete", "constantly", "totally", "all", "nothing could be more", "absolutely", "definitely", "completely", "never".
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