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.
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The stupid, it burns!
Homphonophobes!!
In other news, the school has banned milk products, because almost all of them have been homogenized, and they are concerned that students may think consuming them could have deleterious effects.
In high school marching band I had a Sousaphone I used to blow a lot.
No, those are the ones with blood on them. (ewww)
This is a parody or something right??
Ah dent yous spiel cheekier ether
Admittedly, I am assuming that there is more to the story, that the author is a known homo who was trying to be clever and wrote an article full of risque humor related to faggotry. I just can’t comprehend a world in which he was fired JUST for the use of the word homophonia.
Nope, just heterogeneous ones. /s I am assuming there was more in the actual blog than one word, if that is really all this is about it is insane.
Yep! Har… (wide grin)
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