Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.

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    If you’ve never worked on a holiday you shouldn’t be allowed to go to stores and restaurants on holidays.

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    For the love of god just ask me if I would do something rather than ask me if I can.

    Yes, I can pass the salt. But WILL I? 😑

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    Steak is overrated. I’d take a smash burger over a steak 9 times out of 10, and that 1 time out of 10 will just be because I’m in the mood for peppercorn sauce.

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    The word “utilize” should almost always be changed to “use”.

    And, people who cannot sing should not sing on stage.

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      Oh hell yes, utilize drives me nuts. Its supposed to mean when you find a particularly effective, often different than typical purpose, for usage of something.

      I utilize the word utilize as a way to identify people who spit out word jargon to hide their ineptitude

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    Pokemon is a wild [insert word here] for IRL hunting which I do not condone. It’s literally the same premise just with cutesy characters and PG story line so that kids can become desensitized to the concept.

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    “Steep learning curve” means quick to learn, not difficult. The curve is learning over time. If the curve is steep there is much learning over short time.

    Doesn’t mean easy nor hard, just quick.

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    Island has an ‘s’ in it. This was started as a stylistic choice to make the word look more Latin despite the fact that the English word has no Latin roots.

    This is proof enough that English is a stupid language for the unwashed masses. There are no rules, all that matters is how it is used and understood. Anyone who tries argue that “literally can not mean figuratively” or that gif has to be pronouced a specific way is an idiot trying to force logic into a system that has none. Don’t waste your time trying to explain that you know the only true and proper rules to Calvinball.

    That ‘s,’ that’s what broke me.

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      I have a surprising number of language nerd friends, and my contention that English spelling should be torn down and rebuilt is not popular with them.

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      And the Bri’ish accent was made up by fancy bois and was supposed to be a cool way to speak. It’s entirely artificial. So if some try-hard tries to criticize your English scream "Gubnuh!“ at then and tell them to go have a wank.

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      I am here for this battle, I will die on this hill.

      Jalapeño, Pineapple and Pepperoni … Spicy, Sweet and Savory

      It is a great blend of flavors across the palate.

      I prefer to have the pineapples drained/squeezed a bit before adding to the pizza as it helps to caramelize the sugars in the pineapple. The oven has to boil off all that liquid before it can start doing so. Also all that excess pineapple juice will be drawn out first before boiling off which can make the dough soggy if you don’t allow it enough time in the oven.

      But also, who cares in the grand scheme of things… pizza is great without pineapple too.

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          Will do!

          How is the tomato on there; are they halved cherry tomatoes, diced tomatoes, sliced rounds or…?

          What is the best way to prepare the tomatoes as a topping in your experience with this type of pizza?

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    Saying “bless you” for sneezing is the most bothersome human interaction (to me) that serves literally no purpose but people pretend that it does to justify doing it out of habit. And, oh boy, have I gotten so much shit for it.

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    There are many entirely-valid ways to write out the sound of laughter including endless variations of “heehee,” “heh-heh,” “hahaha,” and more, but I believe “hehehe” is just incorrect.

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    People pronouncing processes (and biases) like they rhyme with “chimpanzees”, instead of “addresses”.

    Since the English language has done words that borrow the Greek and make an -eez sound, like crisis to crises, people seem to think process is Greekified. It doesn’t follow the same pattern at all.

    English is hard enough as it is without inventing extra rules to try to make us sound smarter. Meanwhile, I try to de-Greekify the language with octopuses, syllabuses, and cactuses - all valid plurals in English.

    Source: Bachelor’s degree in English

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      I’m not going to differentiate between Greek and Latin roots and I’m going to keep my freedom of interpretation from Latin thank you.