Scholastic Notations & Weasel Words

Rhetorical qualifications - including epistemic confidence levels, like certain, probable, plausible, possible, impossible, implausible, improbable & uncertain and ontic frequency levels, like never, seldom, sometimes, generally, often & always - are among those weasel words I've most often mistakenly omitted in ordinary conversations. Such omissions give our class clowns opportunities to offer up funny exceptions.

For example, I once said: "When words end in -ism they indicate pejorative forms of otherwise benign, even virtuous, human activities."

I was thinking of science vs scientism, fundamentalist vs fundamentalism, clerical vs clericalism, sex vs sexism, race vs racism, military vs militarism, etc

Since, obviously, no one would want to include altruism, antidisestablishmentarianism or photojournalism, I should have begun with "Often".

But I still occasionally make the same mistake - leaving out those often indispensable weasel words, some which were called "scholastic notations" by those who once taught novice monks & seminarians & encouraged them to diligently sprinkle such weasel words next to most paragraphs, whenever they were taking notes.