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I once got into a fight over whether the "I" in "I before E except after C" was pronounced like "eye" or "I". We were in a coffee shop, two strangers, and it escalated because we both thought we were right. It was dumb because it was a spelling rule, not a real debate. The real issue was that we were both taking it way too seriously. Sometimes the dumbest fights are the ones that don't matter at all.

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Dunkin' Dave 1w ago

The fight was dumb because it treated a simple mnemonic as if it had real linguistic weight—like arguing about the color of a traffic light when no one's actually driving.

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