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Kobe Bryant statue has several spelling
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Posted By: OhioNick, 3/13/2024 2:29:38 PM

The Kobe Bryant statue unveiled last month in Los Angeles is littered with spelling errors and mistakes. The statue memorializing the legendary Los Angeles Lakers player sits outside the Crypto.com Arena, where hundreds of people gather daily. At the marble base of the statue is a rendering of the box score from Bryant’s 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors in 2006. In that box score, the name of former NBA player Jose Calderon is misspelled as “Jose Calderson,” and former player Von Wafer’s name appears as “Vom Wafer.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: LeeBertie 3/13/2024 2:35:53 PM (No. 1676813)
Well, they do want his fans to be able to read the inscriptions.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 3/13/2024 2:36:14 PM (No. 1676814)
DEI on display
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Reply 3 - Posted by: chumley 3/13/2024 2:37:53 PM (No. 1676818)
Back around 1990 in the Air Force we called the sign shop and asked for signs to keep people out of our office when something hot was going on. We dispatched repair crews and played phone tag with commanders and things and interruptions were bad. My favorite sign that we got said "emerency in process". I saved that one. Public school graduates I'm sure.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 3/13/2024 2:47:38 PM (No. 1676832)
Celebrating diversity, inclusion, and equity in industry has its price.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Troutgreen 3/13/2024 2:50:18 PM (No. 1676834)
White Men Can't Jump. Shaq can't hit a free throw. Nobody in the Laker's organization can spell or proofread.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Safari Man 3/13/2024 2:59:36 PM (No. 1676847)
Illegal aliens work for cheap, but no can spell engrish.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JunkYardDog 3/13/2024 3:00:42 PM (No. 1676849)
I'm sure the sculptor didn't make any mistakes-he or she merely read what some one else wrote on the box score and sculpted it verbatim.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: kono 3/13/2024 3:07:58 PM (No. 1676855)
Aw, who cares? Correctness of spelling on monuments was one of the bugaboos of White Privilege, wan'st it?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: sw penn 3/13/2024 3:20:22 PM (No. 1676860)
Speilling is diffikult. Speilling is hawrd. Oh ti hell with it - Spelling is racist...
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Californian 3/13/2024 3:27:30 PM (No. 1676865)
Spelling and facts are white supremacy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: cartcart 3/13/2024 3:38:26 PM (No. 1676871)
It’s not they are spelled, it’s how the names are pronounced.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 3/13/2024 3:48:04 PM (No. 1676880)
Sounds about right. Spelling is racist, doncha know.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: DanvilleBill 3/13/2024 3:48:50 PM (No. 1676881)
Adhearance to good speling has always been a floccinaucinihilipilification. At leest to me anyway.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 3/13/2024 4:00:58 PM (No. 1676903)
It's perfectly grammatical ebonics.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Strike3 3/13/2024 4:21:31 PM (No. 1676919)
If it's not Deshawn, Darius or Demetrius, they are clueless.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Venturer 3/13/2024 4:36:08 PM (No. 1676925)
Who cares?
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Reply 17 - Posted by: ussjimmycarter 3/13/2024 5:00:07 PM (No. 1676947)
Speelin’ is RAAAAACIST!!!! Eubonics ruuules y’all!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: jalo1951 3/13/2024 5:13:59 PM (No. 1676956)
This is not a problem. Kobe was black and we have been told by more than one black elite that reading and writing so a "racist white activity". I hope they are pleased. I frankly believe that being able to read, write a complete sentence and comprehend English is a plus. But then again I am white.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 3/13/2024 6:06:21 PM (No. 1676971)
That spelling is perfectly cromulent in embiggening Kobe Byrant's legacy.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: navybrat 3/13/2024 6:29:31 PM (No. 1676986)
When I was in the public school system, spelling, reading and math and civics were taught. Today college graduates cannot spell, count change or use common sense.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: smokincol 3/13/2024 7:49:03 PM (No. 1677015)
did they spell Kobe's name wrong because it's a real hard name to remember and .... to spell
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Ketchuplover 3/13/2024 8:25:42 PM (No. 1677035)
Near my job is a gas station that has been run by a Mideasterner for the last few years. It has gotten very little business. The gas station now has a new owner who put up a professional-looking sign which reads on both sides: "Your Nieborhood Convenience Destination". I don't hold out much hope for this owner either.:
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Reply 23 - Posted by: downnout 3/13/2024 8:44:18 PM (No. 1677041)
IIRC, Kobe was well-educated and fluent in English and Italian.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: MickTurn 3/13/2024 9:37:15 PM (No. 1677077)
Consider it Ebonics.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: broken01 3/14/2024 8:49:02 AM (No. 1677360)
I would say that I'm surprised but I'd be lying.
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