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Skinny grande decaf latte? No, I just want a @#¡* coffee!
Are you the kind of person who feels annoyed by having to order a 'tall white Americano' when you simply want a small coffee with milk?
Then you'll be pleased to know a blow has been struck for plain English.
Lynne Rosenthal, a literature professor at New York's Mercy College, was this week thrown out of a branch of Starbucks in Manhattan after getting into an argument over the chain's 'linguistic fascism' - and is urging others to follow her rebellious lead.
Professor Rosenthal asked for a bagel, and became enraged when an employee asked whether she wanted butter or cheese with it, reasoning that if she'd wanted anything else, she would have asked for it.
'When you go to Burger King, you don't have to list the six things you don't want,' she told the New York Post. 'Linguistically, it's stupid, and I'm a stickler for correct English.'
The row escalated, with the staff member responding that she wasn't going to get anything unless she specified a choice of topping - and when Professor Rosenthal voiced her disapproval, she was asked to leave.
Three policemen were called and she was threatened with arrest.
The professor, who is in her 60s, says she has previously clashed with staff after refusing to use the absurd Starbucks lexicon of 'tall', 'grande' and 'venti', instead of small, medium or large.
She has vowed never to darken their doorstep again, and urged fellow rebels to boycott the chain.
The story has struck a chord, with no less august a publication than The Economist weighing in, and a report on The Huffington Post website attracting 2,500 comments.
Starbucks does suck in this respect ....... not to mentioned over priced