Posted on 01/24/2010 9:37:48 AM PST by granite
Cliton supporters?
We all looked up the doggie word...and the illegitimate word....and then we used the dictionary for regular stuff!! That’s the way kids are!!
Are these the same nuns who used to cut out pictures in National Geographic?
Research materials should be age appropriate.
I don’t really want my fourth grader to find a photo of genital warts, as they are trying to find genital condition.
School blew it.
That was a close call. If the students had read that definition, they would all have tried it perhaps in class.
Now that they have been protected from the definition, they will never know, and will never, ever experiment with such things.
Now what do we do about the folks in the town who withdrew the dictionary? Perhaps they were influenced by reading a definition of “stupidity” in a dictionary at an early age, and it predisposed them to act it out in later life.
Merriam Webster clearly blew it.
The world is gone crazy and we are worried about dictionaries? Who uses dictionaries anyway? With spell check and google there is no need.
Several questions come to mind:
- how did the parents find out? Was there a dirty word list that gets scanned with every book or was there a sticker on the front of the dictionary that advertised “featuring the definition of oral sex”
- they’re still buying new versions of hard copy dictionaries for schools?
they should be local run wholly
if enough parents object then so be it
folks should try to live in areas that reflect their sensibilities especially if with children
anyone here with children in public school knows what a battle it is to fight the disinformation
THAT does NOT need to be in a dictionary - oral and sex, yes, but separately. Who’s “genius” idea was to put those words together in a dictionary, of all places - and then to give a definition!!! What perverted minds! Unreal.
I thought book burning was a socialist thing.
Ooops, I forgot, This is a government school.
Yeah that was one of our “hobbies” in elementary school. Go to the big unabridged monster in the library and brainstorm dirty words to look up. Within 3 or 4 words we’d be giggling too loud and the librarian would kick us out.
Stupid to complain about the dictionary and stupid to pull it. I’ve got feeling it was religous zealots who complained, not libs. Now every kid at the school will look up oral sex.
So I said "Do you know what that word means? He just called you a lady dog and you like dogs, don't you?"
Well they denied that could be possible, so I got the dictionary and we looked it up and of course I was right. Took all the fun out of that word.
Dictionaries should include these words. Censorship is always stupid.
When I was a teen, about 1970 to 1971, I clearly recall my friends and I getting a big chuckle out of the word “cunnilingus” in the Webster Dictionary.
Merriam Websters are good dictionaries; like everything else, people have to know what they're doing. Same principle as guns and shooters.
Any kid that doesn’t know everything that they are complaining about by the time they are 9 has been living in solitary confinement.
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