• mephiska
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    681 year ago

    milk toast

    Is this sarcasm or do you not know the proper term?

    • @RaoulDook
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      1491 year ago

      Don’t put yourself on a pedal stool like you know all the words in the world

      • @Redditgee
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        761 year ago

        Thanks for saying that. People like you are a blessing in the skies.

        • @[email protected]
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          531 year ago

          Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive porpoises I think you are wrong.

          In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. If you don’t tow the line you’ll never hone in on the truth. Gorilla warfare will be used against you if you don’t agree!

          • @boeman
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            81 year ago

            We don’t need to know your self pleasure habits.

            • @Fapper_McFapper
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              1 year ago

              I mean, if you’ve got the time why not? I’m having a stroke right now.

      • BraveSirZaphod
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        111 year ago

        Which, for whatever it’s worth, was deliberately coined as ‘milk + toast’.

        • Bleeping Lobster
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          31 year ago

          It’s easy to do, if you read a lot and have never said a word out-loud before. I pronounced ‘cacophony’ wrong until my 30s (was saying it like cack-a-fonny instead of ca-coff-a-nee)

          • @barrio_libre
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            21 year ago

            Which sounds funny until you hear a British person say Sax-O-phonist

            • Bleeping Lobster
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              11 year ago

              Well I’m British, living in the UK so that’s just normal everyday speech to me :D

      • @halferect
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        01 year ago

        Also eggcorn is argued by linguists as the natural progression of language, so calling it milk toast or milquetoast is a example of how language developes and really isn’t wrong since everyone understood what milk toast means and understands what milquetoast means.

    • @Linuto
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      81 year ago

      Language is fluid. The character named Milquetoast the expression comes from was based on the idea that milk and toast are a bland and uninteresting meal anyway. The idea is communicated either way.

    • @Fisk400
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      41 year ago

      Did not know. English is my second language and I have only heard it spoken. The weird part is that I have written it in comments before (on reddit) and nobody corrected me.

      Also, it should be milk toast. Milquetoast is a reference to a comic character that is referencing the dish.