Okay, this is funny. A local group in Indiana that opposes a $30 million bond referendum that would fund a new library seems to be in need of a library’s services more than anyone else. They can’t even figure out how to spell the word “oppose.”
A group that raised more than $5,000 to fight a $30 million bond referendum for a new Franklin library gave those on the other side a reason to snicker. “Citizens Apposed to the Library Project” filed their official financial disclosure documents April 20 with the Johnson County clerk.
There appears to be no truth to the rumor that the group will reform as Americans Against Proper Spelling. Or speling.
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shouldbeworking
April 29, 2012 at 10:03 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They probably voted against school taxes too on the basis of education being elitist.
Cuttlefish
April 29, 2012 at 10:09 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s “alitest”, shouldbeworking.
iknklast
April 29, 2012 at 10:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s no surprise to me, since teachers apparently aren’t supposed to bother about spelling anymore. As a college biology teacher, I’m expected to let spelling go, as long as it (sort of, kind of) sounds out to the same thing. I’m opposed to that policy (but not apposed to it?)
Modusoperandi
April 29, 2012 at 10:33 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This iz Amerika! If u downt lyk it, get owt! Thay spel just lyk the Fownding Fotherz did!
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
April 29, 2012 at 10:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Silly Ed. They will be apposed to the project when they’re standing next to it with picket signs. That’s what they meant all along and they’re sticking to it.
edmundog
April 29, 2012 at 11:16 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Any time a student asks me if spelling counts, I say “Yes, always.”
democommie
April 29, 2012 at 11:20 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think that they made a typo, not a misspelling/mispelleen/mispeling. They meant to type the neologism, “Arposed”, as in,”The good citizenz of Maricopa County is “Arposed” the insertion of immigrants doing a “dirty sanchez” through the back door.”.
Liberries? we don’t need no steenkeen liberries!
* In other news, Shurf Joe has FOUND the proof that Obamandingo is NOT a U.S. citizen:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/01/sheriff-arpaio-obama-birth-certificate-forged-perpetrators-must-be-brought-to-justice/
nedchamplain
April 29, 2012 at 11:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Amazed that the sign did not read “We opose any new tacks”
dingojack
April 29, 2012 at 11:31 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Demo – hey I’ve got nothing to do with your Prez! I was out eating babies near Uluru at the time – honest. ;)
(not obaman) Dingo
David Marjanović
April 29, 2012 at 11:52 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Mandinga/Mandinké = a people in west (not east) Africa. That’s why I’m sure the pun on “dingo” is deliberate.
dingojack
April 29, 2012 at 12:05 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
David – Ya think?
:) Dingo
timgueguen
April 29, 2012 at 12:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I would expect people spelling oppose wrong to spell it as upose or uppose. A local accent thing, perhaps?
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
April 29, 2012 at 1:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s not a matter of local accent; the first syllable of “oppose” is a schwa, just like the first syllable of “appear”. (I checked both U.S. and U.K. dictionaries.)
On the other hand there aren’t any common words beginning “upp-” to serve as a model, and the “u” in words with the “up-” prefix has a different sound than the “o” in “oppose”.
sebloom
April 29, 2012 at 1:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
timgueguen, apposed looks rite ta me…I mean, wood you spell “away” like “uway”? Heck no.
Let me just add that this maks me jus so prode to be an Hoosier!
Moon Jaguar
April 29, 2012 at 2:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Liberry apponents don’t suprize me.
democommie
April 29, 2012 at 5:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dear dingojack:
Let me hasten to assure you that no slight was intended.
I’ve been writing “Obamandingo” since early 2008, to “fit in” on certain blogs. It is Obama+Mandingo*.
Ken Norton’s character in the eponymously titled movie of 1975.
dingojack
April 30, 2012 at 9:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes, I got that, thanks.
IT WAS A JOKE, Sheesh!
;D Dingo
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As to the anti-library group – perhaps this young man might give you some sage advice.