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So you're not going to grow tulips unless you grow your tulip business.
Quietly continue to weave tulips in between stamping feet and dogmatics (nouned adjective) to say to Faldage that growing tulips in a garden takes effort,labor,care. Right now my orientation is towards enjoying and admiring them as they are about to open their flowers. But after the bloom the bulbs have to be taken out at the right time and stored in a dry dark place till coming autum.
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So you're not going to grow tulips unless you grow your tulip business.
Quietly continue to weave tulips in between stamping feet and dogmatics (nouned adjective) to say to Faldage that growing tulips in a garden takes effort,labor,care. Right now my orientation is towards enjoying and admiring them as they are about to open their flowers. But after the bloom the bulbs have to be taken out at the right time and stored in a dry dark place till coming autum. Yes, growing tulips takes effort, labor, care, but all that effort will be for naught if the tulips don't have the genetic makeup to grow. Try it with plastic tulips sometime. A business, on the other hand, takes effort, labor, care too. And you could do it with something that would never grow on its own. We have entire businesses that are based on selling things that are thrown away immediately upon the customer's opening the packege they came in.
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Disorientated sounds better than disoriented to me. eww.
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Do not some people call that 'waste'? Aren't there many businesses that are entirely based on producing potential waste?
Or potential nothingness?
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This was the citation I found in the OED dated 1481 that I mentioned earlier, but they didn't have the other one.
Yes, I found both citations in my handy OED, first edition, microprint. Sorry, I stepped on your citation. It seems to me if a 15th century translator-printer can tell us that King David grew a whole city, why can't some CEO tell us that she'll be growing a business?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Do not some people call that 'waste'? Well, my example was actually plastic trash bags, but call them what you will.
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On a related topic: I heard an ad on TV today for a company that says it breeds its own pepper seeds. I don't think I've heard breed used before except for the animal world. Have the rest of you heard it for plants, too?
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it is WRONG to say grow a business!
It is wrong to say it is wrong to say "to grow a business". It's one of the better turns of phrase associated with the business world. The metaphor works for me and Faldo. It doesn't for you. La! Jackie is right this time. It sounds pompous, as typical CEO-speak, like "a new paradigm of leveraging synergies". [There is a less polite term for this sort of speech.] 
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Ok, ok. The latter. Somebody can make a business grow, or develop it, or increase it; but not grow it! (zmjezhd, the stamping foot indicates my childishness and irrationalness and stubbornness in insisting that things I don't like aren't so; for ex. that orientate is not a real word. This is usually reserved for things that don't really matter; but do NOT let me hear anybody say Antartica!  ) " Orientate" is NOT a real word. It is a stupidism. [For less polite characterization, note the colour.] 
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