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Blown Argument Analysis

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What started out as a trivial discussion on the pronunciation of an Italian antipasto, Bruschetta, soon turned into a full blown argument on a typical day at school. Our English teacher routinely conducts sessions where a student will first read out loud, the chapter planned for discussion in class that day. On that particular day, at some point in the text was the word “Bruschetta”, pronounced by my classmate as “Broo-sket-uh”. Myself being the pronunciation freak, corrected him and the argument that followed could rival the battle of the five armies, impressing Tolkien himself. “Broo-sket-uh” being the correct pronunciation, I was indeed off the mark that day. Overconfidence led me to challenge my classmate’s knowledge to a point where

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