burrata, bacon, basil, beef, barbecue sauce, balsamic glaze, black olives, big mushrooms

Hey, I’ve been listening to Half the Answer (which I was unaware of until I heard you on Because Language), and I caught the episode where you reported from the ICE facility. Nice work! Stay safe out there!

The whistle part or the yoga pants part or all of it?

From what I understand, the Grammarly product will still exist and will still be called Grammarly, but the company’s name will be Superhuman. Grammarly will be but one tool in the Superhuman suite. Kind of like the Facebook/Meta thing from a few years back. Maybe? I’m not sure I get it.

I entirely avoid “begs the question.” ✊

Is the ongoing misuse of “factoid” still a misuse when so many people don’t know it is (was?) a misuse?

Nowhere that I can find. Not today, anyway.

I’m not going to defend food dyes. I don’t know enough about them to have a valid opinion. All’s I’m saying is that the old trope of “this or that ingredient is banned in Europe” is often false. Some ingredients just have different names.

It’s true that you won’t find tartrazine on food labels in Europe. That’s because it’s called E102 in Europe. It’s not banned.

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Not to mention the nonsensical “by sponsored the.”

I love it!

Yep, I looked into it. This checks out.

It’s become the all-purpose punctuation mark to a lot of people, in the same way the ellipsis has been for years. It’s the mark people use when they know they want a pause but don’t know how commas, periods, and semicolons work.