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Now, I will absolutely go on record as saying that I think rules mandating certain styles of hair in public schools, except for legitimate safety concerns (no long hair when working in chem lab, that sort of thing) are absurd. I think the reasoning ("Oh, so disruptive!") is asinine and I think that your control over how your students look should stop when they're outside of school grounds - which means that you shouldn't be able to control how they color their hair, because they can't just take dye on and off like a wig.
But this is all beside the point, very same-old, same-old.
No, no - what's funny is the comments. As one person put it, it's clear from the spelling that SOME of these commenters were unreasonably distracted by dyed hair when they were in school!
My personal favorite has to be a three-person exchange that runs like this:
Person A: Blah, blah, blah sheeple.
Person B: (this is an exact quote!) Oh, and what is a sheeples? I take it she meant sheeps. Must be a blond grandma, or maybe it is dye job!
Person C: Actually, sheeple means....
Person B again: (another exact quote!) Well # 26, sheeple is a slang word. It is not in websters online dictionary, but it is in an online slang dictionary. But you are correct it is a word, but it is not a real word.
Quite aside from the absurdity of taking language advice from somebody who thinks the plural of "sheep" is "sheeps", there is no such thing as "not a real word" except for things which, you know, AREN'T real words, like "crampstantion". (I just made that up. If it is a real word, whoops!)
But because I *can*, I went and looked it up in the OED. Guess what? It's in there, with citations as far back as 1945!
And the OED actually is the be-all and end-all of the dictionary world. (Sheeple is also in Collins' dictionary, apparently. Thank you, google!) I don't claim to understand how, exactly, lexicographers practice their arcane arts, but I trust that they know what they're doing. (If nothing else, they know better than to talk about words not being "real". What nonsense is that? If I know what it means and you know what it means, how is it not real?)
But this is all beside the point, very same-old, same-old.
No, no - what's funny is the comments. As one person put it, it's clear from the spelling that SOME of these commenters were unreasonably distracted by dyed hair when they were in school!
My personal favorite has to be a three-person exchange that runs like this:
Person A: Blah, blah, blah sheeple.
Person B: (this is an exact quote!) Oh, and what is a sheeples? I take it she meant sheeps. Must be a blond grandma, or maybe it is dye job!
Person C: Actually, sheeple means....
Person B again: (another exact quote!) Well # 26, sheeple is a slang word. It is not in websters online dictionary, but it is in an online slang dictionary. But you are correct it is a word, but it is not a real word.
Quite aside from the absurdity of taking language advice from somebody who thinks the plural of "sheep" is "sheeps", there is no such thing as "not a real word" except for things which, you know, AREN'T real words, like "crampstantion". (I just made that up. If it is a real word, whoops!)
But because I *can*, I went and looked it up in the OED. Guess what? It's in there, with citations as far back as 1945!
And the OED actually is the be-all and end-all of the dictionary world. (Sheeple is also in Collins' dictionary, apparently. Thank you, google!) I don't claim to understand how, exactly, lexicographers practice their arcane arts, but I trust that they know what they're doing. (If nothing else, they know better than to talk about words not being "real". What nonsense is that? If I know what it means and you know what it means, how is it not real?)
