Paul Rolly: Blogger fired from language school over ‘homophonia’

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 7/31/2014 | PAUL ROLLY

[Graybeard58]

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

Also, boys and girls there share the same curriculum!

Shameful!

[SierraWasp]

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

Yeah but… Din't you hear they were also openly masticating in the cafeteria???

[Mrs. Don-o]

Probably only the thespians.

[I want the USA back]

I thought a homophone was something you can buy in a Sprint store in San Francisco.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

I remember ( I hope) the terms were:
1. Antonym : Same spelling...different meaning )ANTI——))
2. Synonym : Different word but SAME meaning (pair, duo,twin)
3. HOMOnym : Different spelling, different meaning, Same spoken.
Does #2 mean the approval of SIN? Yew nevir noe, dew yew?

[Milton Miteybad]

Antonym : Same spelling...different meaning )ANTI——))...

Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings, with no reference to spelling or pronunciation, i.e., fast/slow, full/empty, etc.

If I recall correctly, anyway...

[Responsibility2nd]

I remember back in the day drinking plenty of Homo Milk. Never turned me gay.

But I don't think I ever used  Homo Phone.

[optiguy]

I wonder, will this further alienate the thespian community at this campus?

[RIghtwardHo]

Doubt it. Probably true. There’s a lot of stupid out there.

[stremba]

And, at lunch time, I’ll bet that they were also openly and unashamedly masticating as well!

[CaptainAmiigaf]

I remember you!!! You were the kid whose hand shot up the instant I made a mistake. Never liked it, but, you were right.

[stremba]

I really hope you’re being sarcastic. This is total idiocy. I recall a case in which a teacher was fired by a public school for teaching the word niggardly in her class. We here on FR were outraged by that. We should similarly be outraged by someone getting fired for teaching about homophones.

[Celtic Conservative]

And openly masticating, three times daily, sometimes more. They’e all a bunch of homo sapiens!

CC

[Milton Miteybad]

Yeah, that was me. I haven’t gotten any better about that, I’m afraid.

[Celtic Conservative]

Shoulda read further down, ya beat me to it.

CC

[SES1066]

I’ll bet almost every student and faculty member there were openly exposing their epidermis in the sight of others!

[ApplegateRanch]

Knee jerk ignorance on both sides of the isle’s (Guam) aisle; as bad as the ‘niggardly” furor of a few years ago.

[Alas Babylon!]

Does THIS come from gay cows???

[Borges]

My gerund got caught in my diphthong. Now I have a dangling participle.

[Alas Babylon!]

Try that again...

Does THIS come from gay cows?