>I remember the teacher saying with awe, "He can do whatever he wants with the English language!" and me thinking, "Who cares? I would normally think that sayi

>I remember the teacher saying with awe, "He can do whatever he wants with the English language!" and me thinking, "Who cares? I would normally think that saying someone can do anything they want with (X) would be an assertion of absolute mastery, and one should care if someone is an absolute master in something. This candidate can do whatever he wants with our main programming language, yeah but I'm still going to hire this one guy who said graduating code camp last week was super cool! The chef at this restaurant can achieve whatever effect they want with food, sure, but me and the band are going to eat these delicious street dogs! it would be easy to make more absurd examples..