Yet the residents seem to put up with it. You get what you ask for.

narc = Narcotics enforcement officer
nark = Tattle-tale

Getting your spelling right can help you to avoid misunderstandings by people like feckingmorons who apparently think this is about drugs.

aerojockey: narc = Narcotics enforcement officer
nark = Tattle-tale

Getting your spelling right can help you to avoid misunderstandings by people like feckingmorons who apparently think this is about drugs.


Lolwut?

aerojockey: narc = Narcotics enforcement officer
nark = Tattle-tale

Getting your spelling right can help you to avoid misunderstandings by people like feckingmorons who apparently think this is about drugs.

Maybe it is about drugs, they just didn't release that part ;-)

aerojockey: narc = Narcotics enforcement officer
nark = Tattle-tale

Getting your spelling right can help you to avoid misunderstandings by people like feckingmorons who apparently think this is about drugs.


I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that absolutely no one was actually confused by what submitter meant.

But good job!

"Hey you can't my assistant for what I...I mean he was doing! You're fired."

heh.

Holy cow this Laboy guy is a first-class asshole.

"He's an honorable and decent person who had a lapse in judgment. You can never judge the character of a person on the basis of one event in their lives."

Oh, well maybe you can't, but if an honorable and decent person commits a several dozen felonies during that one event, I'm going going to judge the guy. Sorry.

Rivera was recently in court on an unrelated case. He was court-ordered to take a road rage course last fall for admitting to speeding through a fire scene and almost hitting a firefighter a year ago with Laboy in the passenger seat.

So the guy has road rage and almost kills a fireman while you're sitting next to him, exactly the sort of behavior I would attribute to a decent and honorable person.

My god, some people are so shameless it isn't even funny. I hope he loses his job too, and if that honorable and decent Rivera ever had road rage again and ends up killing someone, I hope it's him.

And someone give the security guard a cookie for busting those assholes.

aerojockey: narc = Narcotics enforcement officer
nark = Tattle-tale

Getting your spelling right can help you to avoid misunderstandings by people like feckingmorons who apparently think this is about drugs.

No, unlike you I actually read the article about the school chief protecting his unethical assistant after the assistant's illegal behavior is uncovered by the former police officer they schools hired to vet their security.

Relatively Obscure

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that absolutely no one was actually confused by what submitter meant.

Um, well, feckingmorons's struck me as something that only make sense if he's one of those people who is for Legalization(tm) and was commenting that residents put up with enforcement of drug laws. Maybe I made a hasty conclusion.

/never mind
//still: narc=drugs, nark=inform

Awww....that's too bad.

GODDAMNIT!


From the article:
"In an emotional interview Thursday, Laboy apologized to those whose backgrounds were checked, saying, "I am deeply, deeply saddened and I apologize to these people ... I take full responsibility."

Ok, Laboy, you douchey-assbag - if you truly did "take full responsibility" you would've resigned!

This phrase makes me burn so hot it's friggin napalm! Those are weasel words and the moment ANYONE utters that farking phrase, Instantly their new nickname is ferret-face burns.

GRRRAAARRRR!!!

aerojockey: narc = Narcotics enforcement officer
nark = Tattle-tale

Getting your spelling right can help you to avoid misunderstandings by people like feckingmorons who apparently think this is about drugs.

"He said he helped police earlier this week obtain the computer records showing Rivera used school software to run criminal and financial background checks on dozens of people with no school affiliations"

WHAT?

Ok, guys, I'm sorry. I saw the misspelled word "narc", I saw someone make a comment similar to the sorts of comments that people people who complain about the War On Drugs(tm) make, and I made a hasty judgment.

I am an honorable and decent person who had a lapse in judgment. You can never judge the character of a person on the basis of one event in their lives. I am deeply, deeply saddened and I apologize to these people ... I take full responsibility.

Cops = Law enforcement officers
Kops = Corrupt assbags.

/ GOD. Why in the hell same words with different spelling when pronounciated the SAME?!

// I'm gonna cool off now, I just ranted in four different threads now.

I initialy read this as "Consultant who helped nab him let go by ladyboy". Double take.

I believe Superintendent Laboy is an honest and decent person who only took four tries to pass the English portion of the MCAS test.

I will never judge the character of this moron based on four events in his life.

aerojockey: Ok, guys, I'm sorry. I saw the misspelled word "narc", I saw someone make a comment similar to the sorts of comments that people people who complain about the War On Drugs(tm) make, and I made a hasty judgment.

I am an honorable and decent person who had a lapse in judgment. You can never judge the character of a person on the basis of one event in their lives. I am deeply, deeply saddened and I apologize to these people ... I take full responsibility.

*snrk*

Bravo - Excellent snarking. Excellent. This is why I go to fark.

Schools can be nasty places to work. Nepotism. Cronyism. Board members often believe they are above the law. It's tough to remove people once they are in. They often hire unqualified people based solely relationship to someone that works there, which often violates state law regarding teacher certification requirements. Yes, they pass up teachers with the degrees and certifications to instead hire a board member's cousin with no teaching degree.

The thing is: You can find examples of behavior similar to this in EVERY school district if you look hard enough.

so? he could have done those background checks on his home PC. The only issue here is him wasting taxpayer dollars doing the background checks, not the background checks themselves.

tweekster

Schools have to check the backgrounds of people they let work with students. They probably have access to the CORI system for that.

If the state's computer system were designed with citizens in mind it would automatically mail each target a list of all queries -- background checks, license plate checks, any sort of official query not available to the general public.

aerojockey: Relatively Obscure

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that absolutely no one was actually confused by what submitter meant.

Um, well, feckingmorons's struck me as something that only make sense if he's one of those people who is for Legalization(tm) and was commenting that residents put up with enforcement of drug laws. Maybe I made a hasty conclusion.

/never mind
//still: narc=drugs, nark=inform

I am completely ambivalent about the legalization of drugs.

Your contrast of the two terms is however correct. The term narc is from middle 1900 US English as a shortened form of narcotics officer. Nark is from Romany nak meaning nose, or Hindi nak from Hindi nasa, meaning nose. Nark may be used in the verb form meaning to inform, or to bother or annoy.

aerojockey: Ok, guys, I'm sorry. I saw the misspelled word "narc", I saw someone make a comment similar to the sorts of comments that people people who complain about the War On Drugs(tm) make, and I made a hasty judgment.

I am an honorable and decent person who had a lapse in judgment. You can never judge the character of a person on the basis of one event in their lives. I am deeply, deeply saddened and I apologize to these people ... I take full responsibility.

If you really take full responsibility you would buy me a beer.

aerojockey: Ok, guys, I'm sorry. I saw the misspelled word "narc", I saw someone make a comment similar to the sorts of comments that people people who complain about the War On Drugs(tm) make, and I made a hasty judgment.

I am an honorable and decent person who had a lapse in judgment. You can never judge the character of a person on the basis of one event in their lives. I am deeply, deeply saddened and I apologize to these people ... I take full responsibility.

Okay, that was awesome.

It's all better, now.

aerojockey: Ok, guys, I'm sorry. I saw the misspelled word "narc", I saw someone make a comment similar to the sorts of comments that people people who complain about the War On Drugs(tm) make, and I made a hasty judgment.

I am an honorable and decent person who had a lapse in judgment. You can never judge the character of a person on the basis of one event in their lives. I am deeply, deeply saddened and I apologize to these people ... I take full responsibility.

I LOL'd.

"Both Mr. Maldonado and Mr. Rivera may have engaged in lapse of judgment," Laboy said.

How exactly was Maldonado engaging in a lack of judgement by doing his job???

aerojockey: narc = Narcotics enforcement officer
nark = Tattle-tale

Getting your spelling right can help you to avoid misunderstandings by people like feckingmorons who apparently think this is about drugs.

1. narc 789 up, 33 down
1. n. Short for a Narcotics officer. A member of Law Enforcement that enforces drug laws.

2. n. A person who is not a member of Law Enforcement but turns you into the police for doing or dealing drugs.

3. n. A person that turns you in for something you did wrong; specifically to any type of authority figure like parents, cops, teachers, boss, etc.

4. v. The act of turning someone into law enforcement or authority figures.
1. Don't pull your stash out around Jake, I think he's an undercover narc.

2. That farker Ronnie, he is such a narc. He told the cops I was smoking pot in the bathroom.

3. My little brother the narc told mom about the pornos under my bed.

4. Don't narc on me man, I'll give you a couple buds if you keep your mouth shut.

Dan narced on Mary to Mr. Smith when he caught her blowing the football team.

Gunderson: 1. narc 789 up, 33 down
1. n. Short for a Narcotics officer. A member of Law Enforcement that enforces drug laws.

The up/down reminds me of Urbandictionary, and I don't think that's exactly authoritative.

Relatively Obscure: Gunderson: 1. narc 789 up, 33 down
1. n. Short for a Narcotics officer. A member of Law Enforcement that enforces drug laws.

The up/down reminds me of Urbandictionary, and I don't think that's exactly authoritative.

But..But...It has to be correct, I read it on the Internet!

Relatively Obscure: Gunderson: 1. narc 789 up, 33 down
1. n. Short for a Narcotics officer. A member of Law Enforcement that enforces drug laws.

The up/down reminds me of Urbandictionary, and I don't think that's exactly authoritative.

For slang terms I don't think anything can be authoritative.

"You can never judge the character of a person on the basis of one event in their lives."

What kind of logic is that? Yes you can.

ZAZ: tweekster

Schools have to check the backgrounds of people they let work with students. They probably have access to the CORI system for that.

If the state's computer system were designed with citizens in mind it would automatically mail each target a list of all queries -- background checks, license plate checks, any sort of official query not available to the general public.

Yes. That's how we should handle database privacy. If you maintain a database with important information in it you should be required to notify everyone every year (or perhaps more frequently) what it contains and who accessed it.

It would be perfectly ok if the access method was electronic, though. No need to send a few billion pieces of mail.

aerojockey: narc = Narcotics enforcement officer
nark = Tattle-tale

Getting your spelling right can help you to avoid misunderstandings by people like feckingmorons who apparently think this is about drugs.

A narcotics officer is someone who gets you in trouble for drugs. I was under the assumption that this is why tattling is also called "narking". There really is no difference between "nark" and "narc". It's the same thing.

BoySchwen

aerojockey: narc = Narcotics enforcement officer
nark = Tattle-tale

Getting your spelling right can help you to avoid misunderstandings by people like feckingmorons who apparently think this is about drugs.

A narcotics officer is someone who gets you in trouble for drugs. I was under the assumption that this is why tattling is also called "narking". There really is no difference between "nark" and "narc". It's the same thing.

You know what happens when you assume?

No, you are mistaken. The word "nark" existed in the English language well before narcotics police even existed. (Example: the play Pygmalion, written by Shaw around 1914, contains the word).

Some less informed people assumed, when the heard the old word "nark" that it was short for the word "narcotics", but it is not so.

Gunderson

Ooh, Urban Dictionary. I give, that argument is over now.

Anyway, even if you accept the spelling "narc" as a valid folk-etymology, it is nevertheless has a different origin than narc referring to a nacrotics officer, and it thus a different word. A real dictionary might list "narc" as a valid spelling but would have it under a different listing (it'd a little ² next to it).

aerojockey: Anyway, even if you accept the spelling "narc" as a valid folk-etymology, it is nevertheless has a different origin than narc referring to a nacrotics officer, and it thus a different word. A real dictionary might list "narc" as a valid spelling but would have it under a different listing (it'd a little 2 next to it).

narc or nark (närk) Pronunciation Key
n. Slang
A law enforcement officer who deals with narcotics violations.

[Short for narcotics agent.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

I have a lot of words that set me off when people misuse them, but seriously? narc/nark? Get over it.

Wiktionary says narc=nark as well. If you're going to do something as asinine as jumping on somebody for a misspelling, at least make sure you're right.

Oremor Cir

Wiktionary says narc=nark as well. If you're going to do something as asinine as jumping on somebody for a misspelling, at least make sure you're right.

Come on, Wiktionary? Look, I was right. The spellings I gave are the preferrable spellings by any reasonable and informed argument. The only agrument for using "narc" for tattle-tale or "nark" for narcotics officer is "everyone else does it" or "it doesn't matter", which, although it is something that has happened to lots of words, doesn't make them preferrable.

By the Oremor Cir: I just looked at Wiktionary and your are farking liar. Wiktionary claims that "narc" is an alternative spelling or "nark".

I wrote this headline and I wouldn't take Wiktionary as authoritative support for my spelling.

I don't remember seeing the verb spelled "nark." I didn't even know it predated "narc" for "narcotics." To me the word has always been "narc," verb or noun. Maybe the spelling did change to fit culture, but it did so decades ago.

ZAZ: I wrote this headline and I wouldn't take Wiktionary as authoritative support for my spelling.

I don't remember seeing the verb spelled "nark." I didn't even know it predated "narc" for "narcotics." To me the word has always been "narc," verb or noun. Maybe the spelling did change to fit culture, but it did so decades ago.

Wiktionary, or any user editable source is not authoratative. To be authoratative something must have authority- authority given to it by the expertise of its authors. Merriam Webster's dictionary is authoratative as it has an editorial board that vets all information. IMDB is authoratative as it too has a staff that verified and edits the non-publicably editable portion of the website (it is owned by Amazon). Different sources have different authorities. The Chilton's auto repair manuals are not written by a bunch of propeller heads, but rather the are fact checked by mechanics and technical experts. The New England Journal of Medicine has articles by authors with specialized degrees and vetted by a peer review board.

The anonynimnity of popular wikis make them non-authoratative by design. They certainly may be right, however there is no requirement that they be.

I think everyone understood narc or nark, but if you used the word grass you would have confused many people.