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Comment posted on Swine Flu by pedanticKarl

I think a fun lesson would be to get to the root origins
of the word [ homonym ] and its related cousins;
[ homograph ]
[ homophone ]
[ heteronym ]
[ polyseme ]
[ capitonym ]

Using all of these words would make the lesson longer to maybe three minutes in length, or it could be six lessons.

Commonly, this is related to misheard words, or homophones, where the spelling of a word is the same or different and the pronunciation is the same.

Perhaps the http://www.kissthisguy.com/ site of misheard song lyrics is related to this, even though other things are going on in the misheard lyrics.

One time in the Navy a group of us had to watch a safety film about electricity. The film was entitled, “The Deadly Sailor”.

The next day, a friend of mine asked me what safety film I had watched the previous day. I couldn’t remember the title, so I said, it was “The Deadly Seaman”.

In my friend’s mind, he thought I said “The Deadly Semen”, which he thought was a film about some sperm which was going to electrocute some eggs. We laughed about that [homophone] for several years.

pedanticKarl also commented

Hey alex, thanks for that reminder. That was a good suggestion. One of the things that I do whenever I get involved in a new project for an industry that I have very little knowledge of, is to create my own glossary.

You would be surprised, or maybe not, how many companies have no glossaries, and when they do, they are so convoluted that a newbie needs another glossary just to understand their glossary. YT is a case in point. Grrrr, another pet peeve of mine.

Thank you for the reminder aLx and as an honor to you, I have added a section in the Forum as a collection point of words that Marina could later use for an official HotForWords Glossary.

Here is the section in the Forum that I started.
YouTube is silly. They are rotating the Comedy category with the Science and Technology category. What are they thinking? For every page refresh, those two categories alternate. Couldn’t they just add on to the already ten existing categories and display 11 or maybe 12 categories.
Marina, I saw the Derby video, “Hey Mr. Hot Stuff!” appear on the YT home page as a Featured video and it is still on the Spotlight page 5.

Those videos on the Featured section only stay for as long as you don’t move off of the page. If you go to another page, and return, the videos change. I wished YT would keep them up for at least a minute or longer.

The Swine Flu video was also on the YT Home page under Most Popular under Comedy. It looks like those videos stay on the home page for a minute or so.
Che, you are way tooooo funny. That cracked me up. That could be another T-shirt slogan.
Hi Paul,
I got your Tweet regarding the question of what is required for the “Verify” box in the form.

To the right of the “Verify” text box is an image with an alpha numeric number, i.e. a captcha. You enter that alpha numeric code into the text box.

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COP15
Do not go by revelation, assertions;
Do not go by tradition, customs;
Do not go by hearsay, consensus;
Do not go on the authority of sacred texts, authority;
Do not go on the grounds of pure logic, conjecture;
Do not go by a view that seems rational;
Do not go by reflecting on mere appearances, routine;
Do not go along with a considered view because you agree with it;
Do not go along on the grounds that the person is competent;
Do not go along because [thinking] ‘the recluse is our teacher’.

When you yourself know that these things are unwholesome, blameworthy, censured by the wise, when undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill — abandon them.

When you know for yourselves, that these are wholesome, these things are not blameworthy, these things are praised by the wise, undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness, having undertaken them — abide in them.

Accept and live up to it (truth).

– From the The Kesamutti Sutta, or better known as Kalama Sutta
(Sanskrit: Kalama Sutra; Thai: กาลามสูตร, Kalama Sut)

I believe…
I believe in the sun even if it isn’t shining.
I believe in love even when I am alone.
I believe in God even when He is silent.
- anon

“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
– 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (KJV)
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Also Rijk,
I’m not sure about this, but posting several posts in succession might also flag someone as a potential spammer. For example, I know over in the Forum, it is slightly different, but the posts here may have a similar rule.

When I submit a post in the Forum, and then submit another post within a minute or so, then there is a pop-up with a reminder that says something to the effect, “Slow Down….” So, maybe that might apply here also.
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Greetings noobsaibott,
I welcome you to the HotForWords site, and I hope you get to know the people while you are here.

I’m not known for being laconic, but, this time I’ll make an exception.

You have it very wrong.

Notice, I didn’t say YOU are wrong. I said, you are having a miss-understanding. You are having a projection of your own mind placed upon others, which is tangentially incorrect. A lot of us come here to interact with people like you and Marina is just the icing.

Leonard’s been here since Mar ‘08 and I have been here since June ‘08. Sit down, rest awhile and get to know everyone.
Trust me, the world really does work that way.

I could go on, but I have just blown it.
I’ll never be laconic.
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Damiana,
I answered Rijk over here regarding the question of spam.

I only list a few known items that can cause your comment to be flagged as spam. I can tell you from personal experience that when I post a comment on my own blog as a non-logged in user, all of my comments are flagged as spam and I can only guess that it is either related to my domain or it is related to the username being on a list (black list) from other postings elsewhere. I would have to research the spam filter’s rules to see what’s going on.

In your case, if you created another username such as Damiana1 for example, and if your comments were still being flagged, it would indicate a blacklisting of your domain or cookies. Clear your cookies and see what happens. Of course you will lose your personalizations and you would have to key your username and passwords back in again.

As background information, here is the Wordpress information on the spam filter called Akismet.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam
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Hi CK,
My reference to accessibility refers more to the idea of usability in terms of browser standards and ability to present a consistent user experience across all platforms and browsers. Handicapped accessibility certainly is one of those elements and comes under a variety of guidelines such as WAI, UAAG, ATAG, ADA and others.

Hearing impaired Closed Captioning is usually done by people with the skillset and technology to create accurate captioning. It is not a trivial task unless a TA has that skillset or the time. Of course you don’t have to be a TA to volunteer to do this kind of work. Anyone with the time and skill set can do it.

All one needs is to get permission from Marina to replicate the video and then to insert the captioning which can be either hard captioned (visible at all times) or Closed Captioned using YouTube’s player technology.

A two minute video would take me about 20 min to an hour or more to transcribe and add the captioning. The reason for the time is that some words require to be looked up, insert corrections as needed and verify the proper transcription. Someone with a transcribing skillset would be able to do it much more quickly than I could. There are tools that can help, such as speech to text converters. I have not tried it on these videos yet.

Many of the hearing impaired institutes hire people to do these kinds of tasks, and I think many of them are very busy. There is always the question of demand and how many hearing impaired users would this help.

I would think that anyone aligned with the hearing impaired community would take the lead in this endeavor in order to create and implement a plan for captioning.