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Paul Rolly: Blogger fired from language school over ‘homophonia’
Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 7/31/2014 | PAUL ROLLY

Posted on 07/31/2014 9:27:48 AM PDT by Borges

Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there.

This concept is taught early on to foreign students learning English because it can be confusing to someone whose native language does not have that feature.

But when the social-media specialist for a private Provo-based English language learning center wrote a blog explaining homophones, he was let go for creating the perception that the school promoted a gay agenda.

(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...


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1 posted on 07/31/2014 9:27:48 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

This sounds too outrageous to be true. I’m wondering if there’s more to this story.


2 posted on 07/31/2014 9:28:39 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Homophones...cell phones endorsed by Liberace?


3 posted on 07/31/2014 9:30:12 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Borges

What a niggardly thing for the School to do.


4 posted on 07/31/2014 9:31:44 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Homophones...cell phones endorsed by Liberace?

Hemophones ???

5 posted on 07/31/2014 9:32:00 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Borges

I also heard that people at that school were openly and unashamedly matriculating.


6 posted on 07/31/2014 9:32:51 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Borges

He was probably to clever for his own good.


7 posted on 07/31/2014 9:35:09 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Borges

Frigging idiots.

And people pay money to go to this place?


8 posted on 07/31/2014 9:35:20 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Borges

Why does the world need “social media specialists”?


9 posted on 07/31/2014 9:36:32 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Borges

Wait...so its NOT a framily for homos?


10 posted on 07/31/2014 9:37:40 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Fresh Wind

So they can complain they can’t get a job ....


11 posted on 07/31/2014 9:38:30 AM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: Borges

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.


12 posted on 07/31/2014 9:38:52 AM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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To: Borges

At least they are drawing a line in the sand; we don’t tolerate even the appearance of support for faggotry. Sometimes you have to break a few eggs. I’d rather have this than the ubiquitous converse.


13 posted on 07/31/2014 9:39:19 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: Borges

This article is useless without some some link to the actual blog (which the article doesn’t include). Maybe it’s full of double entendre?

Otherwise, I agree that this is really, really, depressingly stupid.


14 posted on 07/31/2014 9:39:40 AM PDT by altsehastiin
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To: LambSlave

Are you kidding? Should we not teach about homogeneous substances in Chemistry class? This is pure insanity.


15 posted on 07/31/2014 9:41:01 AM PDT by Borges
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16 posted on 07/31/2014 9:41:26 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: glorgau

One even openly masticated in a restaurant.


17 posted on 07/31/2014 9:42:44 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Borges

Sounds like the D.C. mayor’s aide who got canned for properly using the word “niggardly” in a statement about budget issues.

God, we are such a stupid country now.


18 posted on 07/31/2014 9:43:07 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Borges

And what about homogenized milk?

What about the study of prehistoric man, such as homo erectus? Are we now just not able to use the given terms because of how we have mainstreamed homosexuality in our culture?


19 posted on 07/31/2014 9:43:23 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: CrazyIvan

She was a thespian, so no great surprise.


20 posted on 07/31/2014 9:46:01 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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