Homogenous
Homeopathy
Homeostasis
Homo sapiens
Homogenized
Homograph
Homonym
Homologous
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Homophone
Normally, I would be dearly and deeply hoping this turned out to be the point-proving sort of hoax.
*patiently waits for con reveal*
*keeps waiting*
*is probably gonna be here a while*
However, as the species keeps proving itself to be exactly this stupid...
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Never underestimate the sheer power of human stupidity. It's an overachiever and will always exceed your expectations.
See also: /r/nottheonion
At the risk of making this funnier.... or possibly worse... I present to you (from a christian children's cartoon) a cucumber. Singing about homophones. Because it can possibly get worse LOL
Ah.... I see you read that story too. At first I thought it was satire. Still not sure.
I dunno, something about these articles seems off to me
I wouldn't be surprised if the guy really did make it up, or exaggerated wildly.
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Given that the papers interviewed the boss, and the boss has been quoted as saying that students on that level would think it meant gay (despite the fact that homophones are taught to second graders, and homogenized milk and juice are a common feature at breakfast), the story sounds real.
It is one of those things which is just too stupid to lie about. Not to mention the fact that the guy's boss deleted the blog post about homophones.
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God damn it, I had things to do today.
Selfie-addicted Russian soldier caught taking pictures of himself in Ukraine.
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*nods* This is one of those cases where I could easily see it happening, but... I could just as easily see it being invented. Of course, the fired party will go to the wall defending his case and the school will break the wall down denying it, so I'm not exactly expecting a resolution any time soon. It's just that in the States, as elsewhere, we do frequently get people in charge who are exactly this stupid -- and so unless we get a confession on one end, that 'maybe...' will remain.
(Example Of When The Stupid Does Get Through: there's one online publication which once refused to use the word 'gay'. They used to autocorrect any such appearance to 'homosexual'. Without examining the context, content -- or remembering that 'gay' occasionally pops up in English as a person's legitimate last name. So various published sports articles featured that well-known track star, Tyson Homosexual. I'm not sure this improved anything.)
I do expect the following: that someone in a news commentary section has already supported the school, gotten that comment upvoted (a lot), and demanded that the English language itself be changed in order to take the Agenda out of it. It's a Greek conspiracy, you know. Or a Latin one -- anyway, they're not American and they're trying to corrupt Our Ideals, which in this case apparently lead to an ideal world in which no one ever says anything which would required you to open a dictionary.
So in the rather odd spirit of turning French Fries into Freedom Fries, I'm sure someone, somewhere, is working on a heterophone. While drinking straightgenized milk.
NewSpeak is never as new as some may think.
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I was searching for a more mainstream article before making the blog post. (Mediaite has its faults, and one of those is the occasional dive into 'Oops, got us too.') If there are now local newspapers involved, we can point this at the Real. Also the Real Idiot.
I suspect one of the next speeches to come down the line will now be from an angry parent withdrawing their second-grade child from school so they won't have to see their offspring exposed to such sick material.
ETA: Someone on another site just posted this link to a list of words which begin with the offending four-letter combo. Our linguistic revisionists have some work to do.
Ow. Stupidity at that level hurts me.
as to wether or not this is real, I cite Poe's Law. Basically wether or not this man was fired for this word doesn't mean that someone wasn't/isn't/won't be fired for a similar word.
So should we expect a one shot featuring a kerfluffle over one of the words in your list there?
Mayhaps an irate parent vs. cheerilee?
2332430 Hey now man, Veggie Tales is the shit. Don't be hating.
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Who's hating lol. There's a reason I knew that song well enough to pull it up as quickly as I did. I just read the homophones thing and suddenly that song was in my head. So I thought I should share :-) Plus... you know... singing cucumber.
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Actually, I was thinking about doing something with immigration.
Y'lnow what just hit me? The (former) boss is making an assumption about the vocabulary and IQs of the ESL students, in that they'll confuse 'homophone' for 'homosexual''. If he's going to believe they're that far down, why would they know what either word meant?
2332652 Yay more Etsee fics about dumb people/ponies
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The Salt Lake Tribune reported on it and (apparently) contacted his ex-employer about it.
This reminds me of the story I once read about a fifth grade Spanish teacher who was fired because she taught her students the word "negro" while the black principal just happened to be passing by the classroom.
This is god's punishment for living a life of synonym.
Sadly, on the bell curve of life, there exist those tiny (or not so tiny) little snippets out at the end of each curve, far, far, far from the giant lump in the middle. For every genius, there is... a high school administrator, or an elected official that seem like the infamous post turtle (I don't know how they got there, but it certainly wasn't on their own). I seem to remember a kerfuffle over 'niggardly' at one time too, as well as the infamous poptart bitten into the shape of Oklahoma (or a gun, if you're paranoid), and the number of children suspended for pointing their fingers, and so on, and so forth. The bad part is when administrators get all huffy and double-down on their idiocy, determined to punish the source of their embarrassment instead of treating it as a lesson learned. (Of course, this assumes that they can learn, which is doubtful for some)
You know on the way out the door, someone started shouting "It's Adam and Eve, not Atom and Eave!"
This doesn't even make my top ten list for stupidest reasons to be fired... Should I be worried?
While this was my encounter with this particular piece of news, I considered it quite plausible. Word filters can be amazingly stupidly made.
One time, I tried to name a character in Dragon Quest IX "Tsukasa", after the Lucky Star character. It wouldn't let me, because it contained the substring "suk". I got around it with a hyphen, but still...
I find it equally concerning that the administrator of an ESL school had to look up the definition of "homophone."
The Trib is a fairly legit news source, it's also the more liberal of our two papers here in SLC. While homophobia might seem be the norm here in Utah, thanks to our lawmakers and the LDS church fighting tooth and nail against the legalization of gay marriage, most of us are actually pretty chill about it and all things "homo." Have this for example. Or the fact that in those 17 days last Decemeber where same-sex marriages were legal here county clerks (the people in charge of marriage licenses) were VOLUNTARILY working extra hours to meet up with the demand and local clergy (including a staggering number of LDS bishops) were on hand for those who wanted a religious ceremony and to help relieve our beleaguered justices of the peace.
Please don't judge us by the morons we have running things.