{"id":33888,"date":"2014-07-31T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=33888"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:53:12","slug":"what-we-have-come-to-language-blogger-fired-for-writing-about-homophones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2014\/07\/what-we-have-come-to-language-blogger-fired-for-writing-about-homophones\/","title":{"rendered":"What we have come to: language blogger fired for writing about “homophones”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings \u2014 such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But when the social-media specialist for a private Provo-based English language learning center wrote a blog explaining\u00a0homophones<\/a>, he was let go for creating the perception that the school promoted a gay agenda.<\/p>\n

Tim Torkildson says after he wrote the blog on the website of his employer,\u00a0Nomen Global Language Center<\/a>, his boss and Nomen owner Clarke Woodger, called him into his office and told him he was fired.<\/p>\n

As Torkildson tells it, Woodger said he could not trust him and that the blog about\u00a0homophones<\/a>\u00a0was the last straw.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow our school is going to be associated with homosexuality,\u201d Woodger complained, according to Torkildson, who posted the exchange on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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