Broadly Speaking

Statements that probably need to be preceded by the expression "broadly speaking", please.

People can then beg to differ, of course.

Broadly speaking, middle class people in the U.K. call their parents mummy and daddy, while working class people call them mum and dad.

American tourists getting to know British tourists in a bar in, say, an Indonesian holiday resort: broadly speaking, in the ensuing conversation, the Americans will have the main objective of revealing as much as they can about their life story and their opinions on a range of topics; the British tourists might reveal things but it won't be their main objective

@fmf said
American tourists getting to know British tourists in a bar in, say, an Indonesian holiday resort: broadly speaking, in the ensuing conversation, the Americans will have the main objective of revealing as much as they can about their life story and their opinions on a range of topics; the British tourists might reveal things but it won't be their main objective

@suzianne said
Weak.

Broadly speaking, Norwegians are more laid back than Swedes, and the Swedes are not as arrogant as the Danes.

@suzianne said
Weak.

@fmf said
Broadly speaking, Norwegians are more laid back than Swedes, and the Swedes are not as arrogant as the Danes.

Broadly speaking, I am a chess player.