Chula Retracts Statement Sliming Student, Yet Bad Taste Lingers

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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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[ChrisY1]

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

 

[Emster23]

"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

[Briggsy]

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

[JSixpack]

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

[Briggsy]

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.

[yellowboat]

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

[Baerboxer]

"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.”

 

 

The country's premier university.

[Moonmoon]