What a bunch of homophones!

[Red Squirrel]

But chicken noodle soup can cure cancer! Big pharma just does not want us to know that.

 

[alkemyst]

But chicken noodle soup can cure cancer! Big pharma just does not want us to know that.

She was messed up and on a scholarship from some foreign country or some other BS. Total disruption everyday.

 

[crashtech]

What about Homo sapiens? Does he object to this word too?

That one passes, because it sounds smart. Homo Erectus, however...

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

What about Homo sapiens? Does he object to this word too?

OK, so, Homo in "Homo sapiens" means "wise man" in Latin, Homo =man and sapiens = wise (edit: wise in this case is taken more in the sense of intelligent, able to understand, obviously there is a difference between wisdom and intelligence). The "homo" in homophone, and homosexual, does not come from Latin, it comes from Greek. The word in Greek is:ὁμός

The first letter of that word is an omicron, roughly an O, except that in ancient Greek, many words that began with vowels had what is called a "rough breathing". A word with a rough breathing was pronounced with an H sound. Thus a word starting with Alpha (A) and a rough breathing would be pronounced "Ha". Transliterated to English to capture the sound, this word would be written "homoss". Appended to another word as a prefix, the sigma (equivalent to S) would be dropped and you just get Homo.

As to the meaning of the word itself, this Greek word meant "same". Thus homosexual does not mean "mansexual", it means "samesexual".

Just in case anyone wondered if homo sapiens and homosexual were related as words, they are not.

 

[crashtech]

 

[John Connor]

wat?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+a+protected+class

 

[pontifex]

i don't even....huh? wha? eh?


There has to be something else going on.

 

[akugami]

In one of my college classes a chick though this was the "scientific term" for gay people. When challenged back what is the "scientific term" for straight people she said "Hetero Sapiens".

She also decided to bring her mother to school when the teacher challenged prayer and chicken noodle soup are not cures for disease. They had to call security.

She didn't pass.

LOL. Reminds me of middle school. I called a girl a Homo Sapien, this was in biology class. She told the teacher, and the teacher said she was a Homo Sapien. Waited like a minute to see what she would say, then explained what a Homo Sapien is.

 

[Eug]

 

[Ruptga]

Ahh, the protected class bull shit strikes again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
Sex is a protected class, while sexual orientation is not, so that's a huge double-fail. The first fail is, of course, completely missing that this is more about the boss being so incredibly ignorant that he thought homophones have anything to do with homosexuality.

Actually come to think of it, your third fail was in bitching about anti-discrimination in general. Would you honestly prefer the US of the 1800s where women weren't allowed to vote or work outside the home, Indians were exterminated in the name of lebensraum, and blacks were three fifths of a person? That's what life looked like before equality became an issue in society and politics.

 

[feralkid]

What about Homo sapiens? Does he object to this word too?

Not to mention Homo erectus.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

This is starting to remind me of the judge asking "why not white holes?"