Chula Retracts Statement Sliming Student, Yet Bad Taste Lingers

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Reungwit Bunjongrat holds a fourth-year student Supalak Damrongjit in a headlock Thursday at Chulalongkorn University. Photo: Netiwit Chotiphatchaisal

 

BANGKOK — Chulalongkorn University offered a muddled response over the weekend to controversy over a professor placing a student in a chokehold during a freshman initiation ceremony.

 

First, the university published Saturday an English-language statement blaming a student by name for the incident and claiming he was taken to a police station. It was deleted the following day and replaced with an apology citing an “inaccurate translation.”

 

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Students brainwashed into believing that crawling on the ground to a statue, is honorable.

 

"Sliming student"? Did they mean "Slimming" as in losing weight? Sliming as in Ghost Busters? Need to check the spellcheck? It's a shame I reckon

It is possibly a usage error. "Sliming" vs "smearing".

44 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

It is possibly a usage error. "Sliming" vs "smearing".

 

Dictonary.com is your friend.

 

Slang definitions & phrases for slime

slime

noun

slimebag: ''I think he's a slime,'' Louise Hartley said (1950s+)

verb

1. Denigrate harshly and often falsely; smear: James Earl Jones gets slimed (1990s+)
2. To speak in an unctuous and cajoling way: ''May I personally take your order, Mr Goodman,'' he slimed (1990s+)

--http://www.dictionary.com/browse/slime

I am 47. I am a native speaker of English. That is the first time I have seen the verb "to slime" used in this way. However, I am aware that languages constantly evolve. It does not appear in my 1980 Little Oxford Dictionary. I will see how this situation develops.

Praying to statues and the arm around the neck does make one wonder what sort of education is taking place at such an institution. 

"First, the university published Saturday an English-language statement blaming a student by name for the incident and claiming he was taken to a police station. It was deleted the following day and replaced with an apology citing an “inaccurate translation.”

 

 

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