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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
Perhaps one could also say that when a person says "Generally speaking when someone says..." that person thinks that all the societies, cultures, ideologies, social groups, speakers of regional and social dialects, etc. of the world cast, in general, the same meanings on strings of words in English as they do (or, if intolerant, mean that they should cast the same meaning as them and take offense if possible). 
No offense meant  . |
Or it could simply mean they actually know what the word Generally means and aren't interested in playing internet word games.