Or even asymptotic.

That could be a ladder to climb up to the top bunk.

I’ve only ever heard people pronounce it with the L sound, and dictionary.com only lists one pronunciation, and it includes the L. Despite the word being borrowed from Spanish, we didn’t keep the pronunciation like we did with, e.g., “tortilla”.

Yes.

Though I obviously don’t speak for everyone.

Taking a drug that doesn’t work is not necessarily the same as taking a placebo. I have suffered a lot from drug side effects, and some have hurt me long-term, years after I stopped taking the medicine. I am incredibly wary of taking anything new, even before all the horrors of 2025. With even worse approval processes, I expect that a lot of harmful and potentially debilitating or deadly stuff is going to end up on pharmacy shelves soon.

I feel like I’m missing a reference here, but are you ok?

Right movie, wrong character. Gus Gorman, played by Richard Pryor, skimmed the money from discount Gene Hackman (Ross Webster, played by Robert Vaughn).