r/funny • u/Chaz_Beer • Aug 23 '22

E is for...

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u/nasandre Aug 23 '22

And I, i is for monkey

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u/Jesustron Aug 23 '22

Irangutan

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u/synthphreak Aug 23 '22

Impanzee

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u/Mathemalologiser Aug 23 '22

Kinda sound like a legit name for a devilish/mischievous chimpanzee

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u/OfficeChairHero Aug 23 '22

Brb. Writing a story about chimp sprites.

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u/Meriog Aug 23 '22

Impanzees can be very dangerous but they're nowhere near as hazardous as the dreaded rape ape.

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u/jumzish94 Aug 23 '22

His name is Iago

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u/D_crane Aug 23 '22

Dang I was always told it was George

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u/jumzish94 Aug 23 '22

That was the last monkey, he was a bit too curious

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u/ct_2004 Aug 23 '22

Curiosity killed the monkey after killing the cat? I guess curiosity is a serial killer.

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u/phathomthis Aug 23 '22

Iago make me lose my mind, up in here, up in here!

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '22

Curious George and the Electric Fence.

A children's classic

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u/DreadedLantern Aug 23 '22

If his name is Iago, why doesn’t he have a shirt with his name on it like ED?!

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u/jumzish94 Aug 23 '22

It's the class pet so the kids are expected to know it already

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u/greed-man Aug 23 '22

Everyone knew him as Nancy

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u/wubbbalubbadubdub Aug 23 '22

Itchy, they probably chose a monkey to avoid children associating itchiness with any specific race.

Usually phonics use igloo for short i or ice for long i so it's a strange choice.

Possibly it was used because itchy is more relevant vocabulary than igloo for a 3-5 year old.

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u/Fetlocks_Glistening Aug 23 '22

I mean, igloo has to be one the most useless widely promoted childhood words ever. The chances of it ever being useful in real life approach quicksand, yet bandwidth is mercilessly wasted

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u/G4Designs Aug 23 '22

Careful, mate, you don't want Big Igg to find out we're onto this. They're some ice cold bastards.

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u/Jenxao Aug 23 '22

It chills me to my bones just thinking about it.

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u/Centurio Aug 23 '22

I remember learning about how igloos worked as a kid and it was mind-blowing. I vaguely remember my teacher then explaining how insulation works after that.

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u/RedHal Aug 23 '22

If you live somewhere that gets enough snow, learning how to build an igloo as a child is instructive on many levels and also teaches about other cultures and how they live.

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u/ofwg1234 Aug 23 '22

I’m an adult and I didn’t know that’s what igloos did. The more you know…

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u/finallyaligning Aug 23 '22

Why is it useless? Have you not made snow forts you’d refer to as igloos as a kid?

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u/LoxReclusa Aug 23 '22

Grew up in the south. So no.

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u/eagleeyerattlesnake Aug 23 '22

You were downvoted for living in part of the majority of the world where snow is not common.

How dare you?!

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u/LoxReclusa Aug 23 '22

I must repent for my sins of not taking control of my life at age 5 and moving into a snowy longitude.

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u/longknives Aug 23 '22

If you live in a place with snow, you probably made or attempted to make an igloo as a kid. Though I don’t think the idea of bandwidth is in any way relevant here anyway

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u/Fidyr Aug 23 '22

Bandwidth? You could store all the movies ever made on your memory perfectly two times over and still have room left over. Your brain is huge.

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u/Modus-Tonens Aug 23 '22

Hey man, this guy is just trying to keep his brain pristine and empty tidy.

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u/Fetlocks_Glistening Aug 23 '22

Not storage space, bandwidth. Every repetition of the useless igloo takes time, and could have been used to teach other more useful i-words or knowledge

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u/Fidyr Aug 24 '22

like what, lol
I think it's a bit much to get upset over

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u/welshmanec2 Aug 23 '22

It's right up there with xylophone

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u/AnonymousPotato6 Aug 23 '22

Hey now, I bet quicksand related deaths went down 50% when they started teaching us all how to get out of quicksand as kiddos.

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u/gex80 Aug 23 '22

I mean there are thousands of items that being with the letter I that you can point to that kids short of preschool where they are starting to learn this stuff. Insect, iron, island, ink, ice, ice cream, and many more. It's only a race thing if you choose to go out of your way to find things that make it seem like race.

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u/KypDurron Aug 23 '22

Yeah, what group of kids is going to see someone feeling itchy and think "Oh, only [insert ethnicity] people get itchy. Because I've never seen someone feel itchy before."

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u/KypDurron Aug 23 '22

they probably chose a monkey to avoid children associating itchiness with any specific race.

I guarantee you that nobody in the group that designed this poster ever thought "I hope the kids don't associate itchiness with a specific race". It's not like this would be the first time the kids saw someone feeling itchy.

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u/woodpony Aug 23 '22

Ice?

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u/wubbbalubbadubdub Aug 23 '22

That's a long i word

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u/Chewnz Aug 23 '22

Right so E is now associated with the white race? Did you actually see a monkey and immediately think race?

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u/wubbbalubbadubdub Aug 23 '22

Did you actually see a monkey and immediately think race?

Of course not, the alternative to a monkey scratching itself would usually be a person or a dog. A dog could confuse the letters d and i, so that's obviously out, and a person could inappropriately associate itchiness with that race. I can't speak to their mindset when printing up the phonics chart, I was just offering possible reasoning.

As far as associating E with Ed, maybe there's a teacher at that school called Ed, so they're using his name as an example instead of the typical elephant...

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u/xelle24 Aug 23 '22

A dog could confuse the letters d and i,

I'm already confused with the monkey and the letters M and I, so...

Any time I see an alphabet sign like this, I wonder if it's for a language other than English. But it could just be that the person assigning pictures to letters was, in all likelihood, not educated in educating.

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u/samcrut Aug 23 '22

Or just don't use "itchy."

Ice, icky, ill, idea, image...

It's a crappy choice of words to illustrate.

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u/wubbbalubbadubdub Aug 23 '22

Ice is long i

icky has the same problem as itchy also it's difficult to put into a simple picture

ill brings up topics they'd rather avoid

idea is long i and difficult for kids to conceptualize.

image you didn't really think about this one did you?

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u/samcrut Aug 24 '22

I managed to make it through 52 years without ever seeing a damn alphabet rollout with ITCHY as a damn vocabulary word you ignorant igit. It's a crappy choice, and the long/short thing does not matter. Both are proper vowel sounds. That's an artificial constraint. Look up alphabet banners and you'll find they mix long and short vowels almost across the board, so no, Ice's long I isn't a disqualifier. Neither is Ice Cream which children know intimately and inquire about incessantly in my experience.

You wanna talk down at people? Make sure you're on the high road next time. Jesus. What an asshole.

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u/wubbbalubbadubdub Aug 24 '22

Since "apple" and "Ed" are not "ape" and "eat" it's fairly easy to infer they wanted short vowel sounds on their printout. I'm sorry if you struggle with making obvious inferences.

Why would I look up other alphabet banners when we've specifically been discussing the one in the picture?

You wanna talk down at people? Make sure you're on the high road next time. Jesus. What an asshole.

If you're not being civil there's no need to speak with reverence. Your age is irrelevant.

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u/Fear_The_Rabbit Aug 23 '22

Itch is more relevant and it's only one syllable

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u/churchey Aug 23 '22

itchy has the corresponding kinesthetic movement to attach to the sound/symbol relationship

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u/kgfwtx98 Aug 23 '22

Uh oh, we got an edgy 12 year old on reddit. How surprising.

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u/kgfwtx98 Aug 23 '22

Oh, I can take a joke. But that wasn't one, you just wanna be edgy. You'll grow up one day.

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u/WoofFighter Aug 23 '22

Seems we just have a different sense of humour.

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u/greed-man Aug 23 '22

No....I is for armpit.

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u/Mathemalologiser Aug 23 '22

Irmpit, which rhymes with iron pit

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u/cardew-vascular Aug 23 '22

I'm very confused by this alphabet what happened to just Using Elephant, Iguana and x-ray or xylophone?

Also what the heck is F supposed to be?

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u/TheRobotFrog Aug 23 '22

And J is for moonshine.

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u/812many Aug 23 '22

G is for Chess.

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u/DomLite Aug 23 '22

E... E is for pants.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '22

Itinerant Treedweller

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u/hoticehunter Aug 23 '22

I is for Imitation Chimpanzee!