I always view that one as meaning that you must learn a lot about something in a short amount of time in order to use it effectively, where shallow learning curve, in a positive context, would mean you can make it useful without knowing all that much about its full capabilities.
While not quite as passionate as you, I agree. Nuts don't help cake.
Advanced coursework in this subject: consider brownies.
If it were meant to be pronounced 'giff' as in 'goober', it would have been spelled that way. You decide to turn an initialism into an acronym, you get what you get.
As an English major and history buff, Anti-Stratfordians live in my head rent-free. I hate their stupid, classist arguments that utterly depend on misunderstanding the context of Elizabethan theatre, Shakepeare's story, his work, that of his peers, and how truly well documented he is for a 16th-century commoner.
Psycholinguisitics understands this effect. The "wrong" word is increasing cognitive load and slowing down the listener's comprehension. The exact same thing happens when pronoun use is unclear and a person has to parse the most likely referent from context.
Language, especially English, is not computer code but leveraging the existing "libraries" of meaning and declaring variables carefully is usually very useful.
Having lost a few rolls, many years ago, to a Sheltie puppy with cat-like tendencies, I understand how annoying that would be to live with for the animal's entire lifetime, and I'm willing to make an exception for cat owners. Otherwise it's just making things harder for no good reason.
Turkey is pointless. It’s just chicken but always slightly worse. You have to deep fry turkey to get it within spitting distance of your average grocery store rotisserie chicken.
I’m mostly with OP here. The traditional American Thanksgiving menu is aggressively mediocre.
Chances of being sold via MLM: 100%, or somehow higher?
That reminds me of Drew Barrymore getting her "start" as a wide-eyed moppet in ET, but also with a 200-year family history as prominent actors, including close associations with the Booth family. Not really that anybody was trying to be particularly sneaky, just funny.
It's okay. He said he loves Jesus. We're all fine!!!!!!
Once or twice when mine was a baby, she fell asleep, and I began to walk away after parking. I didn't make it more than a few steps, but the guilt and panic were real.