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Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.

 
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Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.
Homophones are words that sound the same but mean different things: be and bee, ales and ails, adulteress and adulterous.

A “social media strategist” for a Utah school serving foreign students said he was fired after his school’s owner reprimanded him for the allegedly gay connotations of a blog post concerning homophones.

“People at this level of English may see the ‘homo’ side and think it has something to do with gay sex.” the owner, Clarke Woodger, allegedly told Tim Torkildson while firing him last week.

Torkildson reportedly was hired as a teacher at Nomen Global Language Center in Provo this past April 1 before being re-assigned to handle the school’s social media. Torkildson gave his account of the meeting with Woodger on his personal blog.

“I’m letting you go because I can’t trust you,” Woodger allegedly said. “This blog about homophones was the last straw. Now our school is going to be associated with homosexuality.”

Woodger also allegedly complained that he didn’t know what homophones — words that sound identical while having different meanings and spellings — were, and that it was the kind of “advanced stuff” Nomen did not teach its students. He also accused Torkildson of not being reliable enough to continue working for the school.

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Re: Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.
Typical bible thumping mormon homophobes, so stupid they can't even understand a word.
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Typical bible thumping mormon homophobes, so stupid they can't even understand a word.
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No proof of your rant in the text or link.
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Re: Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.
Heaven save us from illiterate fucks with opinions about things they know NOTHING about- this is exactly why democracies are so damn dangerous since they assume that everyones opinion is equal.
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Re: Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.
Isn't that the same thing as an Obama phone?
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homophone = pink motorola razr
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homophone
  Use Homophone in a sentence
hom·o·phone
[hom-uh-fohn, hoh-muh-] Show IPA
noun
1.
Phonetics . a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
2.
a written element that represents the same spoken unit as another, as ks, a homophone of x in English.


Sue the fucking Mormon shills.
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No proof of your rant in the text or link.
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Re: Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.
He does need to sue, there was no basis for his dismissal.

What about homonyms? What would they have done if he had written about homonyms for ESL learners?

Remember that academic who got fired for using the word "racist shitrdly" in a speech?

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He does need to sue, there was no basis for his dismissal.

What about homonyms? What would they have done if he had written about homonyms for ESL learners?

Remember that academic who got fired for using the word "racist shitrdly" in a speech?
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Yeah, I imagine the school's gonna get a hell of a lot of backlash for this either way.

They wanted to avoid being associated with gays, but now they are perceived as a stupid school. Nobody likes stupid schools.
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Typical bible thumping mormon homophobes, so stupid they can't even understand a word.
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No proof of your rant in the text or link.
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" Woodger also allegedly complained that he didn’t know what homophones — words that sound identical while having different meanings and spellings — were, and that it was the kind of “advanced stuff” Nomen did not teach its students."

There's the proof...
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Typical bible thumping mormon homophobes, so stupid they can't even understand a word.
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Typical stupid liberal to mis-characterize a situation. We should pack up and send the city of Detroit to Canada so you libtards get the full effect of libtardism off the deep end.
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Re: Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.
Typical bible thumping mormon homophobes, so stupid they can't even understand a word.
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No proof of your rant in the text or link.
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" Woodger also allegedly complained that he didn’t know what homophones — words that sound identical while having different meanings and spellings — were, and that it was the kind of “advanced stuff” Nomen did not teach its students."

There's the proof...
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Which is the craziest part of it. The dude makes the school look stupid and sounds stupid when he explains his decision... they would be better off looking gay--and they wouldn't have even looked gay!!3334
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I keep telling people I'm a homosapien who enjoys masticating regularly.
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I keep telling people I'm a homosapien who enjoys masticating regularly.
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I am using that now... thank you... LOL cruise
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Hilarious stuff.
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Last bump of the day...
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Isn't that the same thing as an Obama phone?
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strange Not to be confused with Obamaphobia.
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All crotch all the time with homo's. Only a fool cannot see they are deranged product. They don't act normal, everything about them is defined by being a homo. These degenerate heathens will soon learn their rightful place in creation.
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All crotch all the time with homo's. Only a fool cannot see they are deranged product. They don't act normal, everything about them is defined by being a homo. These degenerate heathens will soon learn their rightful place in creation.
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Did you read this story at all? Has nothing to do with actual "homos" 1doh1 spank
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All crotch all the time with homo's. Only a fool cannot see they are deranged product. They don't act normal, everything about them is defined by being a homo. These degenerate heathens will soon learn their rightful place in creation.
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Go back to the 1950s asshole.
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He does need to sue, there was no basis for his dismissal.

What about homonyms? What would they have done if he had written about homonyms for ESL learners?

Remember that academic who got fired for using the word "racist shitrdly" in a speech?
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Geez you can't even type it on GLP. I guess it's a homophone of the n-word, but it means cheap and miserly.
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Re: Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.
He does need to sue, there was no basis for his dismissal.

What about homonyms? What would they have done if he had written about homonyms for ESL learners?

Remember that academic who got fired for using the word "racist shitrdly" in a speech?
 Quoting: Vision Thing


Geez you can't even type it on GLP. I guess it's a homophone of the n-word, but it means cheap and miserly.
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Any way you can try to translate it for us another way?
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People are incredibly dumb. When you try to make them less dumb, they get mad.
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Re: Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.
He does need to sue, there was no basis for his dismissal.

What about homonyms? What would they have done if he had written about homonyms for ESL learners?

Remember that academic who got fired for using the word "racist shitrdly" in a speech?
 Quoting: Vision Thing


Geez you can't even type it on GLP. I guess it's a homophone of the n-word, but it means cheap and miserly.
 Quoting: Vision Thing


Any way you can try to translate it for us another way?
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Re: Teacher fired from Utah language school for teaching "Homophones" (not a typo) which apparently promotes a gay agenda.
He does need to sue, there was no basis for his dismissal.

What about homonyms? What would they have done if he had written about homonyms for ESL learners?

Remember that academic who got fired for using the word "racist shitrdly" in a speech?
 Quoting: Vision Thing


Geez you can't even type it on GLP. I guess it's a homophone of the n-word, but it means cheap and miserly.
 Quoting: Vision Thing


Any way you can try to translate it for us another way?
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Oh lol, I remember that....
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I keep telling people I'm a homosapien who enjoys masticating regularly.
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Homo Sapien? We don't have any on planet earth. The misnamed Homo Sapiens is actually Homo Retardus, and the planet's overpopulated with them. Some are Homo Retardus Retardus, a version of retard that actually enjoys copulating with others of the same sex. Luckily, Mother Nature has assured us that this act of retardation will not result in progeny, just diseases and metaphysical consequences.
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Here is my husband's reply to this news:

"I new this was going to happen some thyme!!"
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If people would read the article, one could see that this was not the only reason the teacher was fired. He was hired as a teacher on April 1 and had been reassigned already to social media. Then the owner said that this was the last straw and the teacher was unreliable.
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While they are at it ask Woodger if Heterographs are acceptable.


Heterographs are homophones that aren’t homographs (same pronunciation, different spelling).

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We should all go on the school's website and ask, "what's a homophone?" There's a contact form on the homepage.





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