My current view is that ambiguous language only benefits poets and disingenuous scoundrels (politicians, sleazy marketers, etc.)

That said, I'm open to being talked out of this viewpoint. Being cynical makes me unhappy.

Thomas is definitely a disingenuous scoundrel.

In all seriousness, I laugh at absurd absolutes. If you show me a sentence with "Most people" and the same sentence with "Everybody", I'm going to smile at the second.

But I don't think that means it's ambiguous. "I literally died" makes me laugh but there's no deception.

This is why we can't have nice things.

e.g. remember when "synergy" actually meant something?

I literally remember that.