# 3-year-old girl with scars asked to leave KFC because she was scaring the customers

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**Created:** [June 16, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863 "2014-06-16T00:12:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/61 "2014-06-18T00:11:26Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> The poster misspelled “scarred.” Substitute it for one of the “scareds” and it makes a little more sense.

I actually got that much, but the rest is pretty much a big woosh for me.

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/62 "2014-06-18T01:25:31Z")

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> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#):
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> It would be too scary. Besides, I think someone may have thought this story was a joke because of the similarity between the words “scared” and “scared”.
> 
> I used to know all about homynoms and synonyms and other words like that. But I now can’t seem to remember what you call the two words “scared” and “scared”.
> 
> I also no longer think it’s at all amusing or interesting. IMO, it’s just a waste of human brain cells to give a shit about any of the fallout.  
> [Homonym - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym)
> 
> In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but may have different meanings.[1] Thus homonyms are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling). The state of being a homonym is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of right). A distinction is sometimes made between “true” homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal).[2][3]
> 
> In non-technical contexts, the term “homonym” may be used (somewhat confusingly) to refer to words that are either homographs or homophones.[1] In this looser sense, the word row (propel with oars) and row (argument) and row (a linear arrangement of seating) are considered homonyms, as are the words read (peruse) and reed (waterside plant).  
> [Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071008153647AA2G7yg)  
> A homonym  
> … is one of a group of words that share the same spelling or pronunciation (or both) but have different meanings. The state of being a homonym is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are stalk (which can mean either part of a plant or to follow someone around) and the trio of words to, too and two (actually, to, to, too, too and two, being “for the purpose of” as in “to make it easier”, the opposite of “from”, also, excessively, and “2”, respectively). Some sources state that homonym meanings must be unrelated in origin (rather than just different). Thus right (correct) and right (opposed to left) would be polysemous (see below) and not be homonyms.  
> An antonym…  
> is a word or term which is opposite to another, such as flammable and non-flammable, as opposed to synonymous (ie, two words or terms having the same or nearly the same meaning, such as joyful and glad).  
> A synonym …  
> two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context Example: lawyer = attorney.

Um, thanks for that lesson on synonyms and homonyms, etc. But what are you talking about??😕 I really cannot figure out what you are saying here. WHO is it, exactly, that you think got “scared” and “scarred” confused and how does it apply to this thread? And the reason there is no video evidence of this incident is because it would be “too scary”? Is this some attempt at humor?

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/63 "2014-06-18T01:43:54Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> It happened in April.

“It”, BTW, was the dog attack. She had been in the hospital continuously from the time of the attack until she was discharged the day of the alleged KFC incident.

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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/64 "2014-06-18T02:13:56Z")

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> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#):
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> It would be too scary. Besides, I think someone may have thought this story was a joke because of the similarity between the words “scared” and “scared”.
> 
> I used to know all about homynoms and synonyms and other words like that. But I now can’t seem to remember what you call the two words “scared” and “scared”.
> 
> I also no longer think it’s at all amusing or interesting. IMO, it’s just a waste of human brain cells to give a shit about any of the fallout.  
> [Homonym - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym)
> 
> In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but may have different meanings.[1] Thus homonyms are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling). The state of being a homonym is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of right). A distinction is sometimes made between “true” homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal).[2][3]
> 
> In non-technical contexts, the term “homonym” may be used (somewhat confusingly) to refer to words that are either homographs or homophones.[1] In this looser sense, the word row (propel with oars) and row (argument) and row (a linear arrangement of seating) are considered homonyms, as are the words read (peruse) and reed (waterside plant).  
> [Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071008153647AA2G7yg)  
> A homonym  
> … is one of a group of words that share the same spelling or pronunciation (or both) but have different meanings. The state of being a homonym is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are stalk (which can mean either part of a plant or to follow someone around) and the trio of words to, too and two (actually, to, to, too, too and two, being “for the purpose of” as in “to make it easier”, the opposite of “from”, also, excessively, and “2”, respectively). Some sources state that homonym meanings must be unrelated in origin (rather than just different). Thus right (correct) and right (opposed to left) would be polysemous (see below) and not be homonyms.  
> An antonym…  
> is a word or term which is opposite to another, such as flammable and non-flammable, as opposed to synonymous (ie, two words or terms having the same or nearly the same meaning, such as joyful and glad).  
> A synonym …  
> two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context Example: lawyer = attorney.

Whisky. Tango. Foxtrot. Are you on about… or, what Jamie sed.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/65 "2014-06-18T03:18:47Z")

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I think he thinks some people would misread the article as the girl being “scared,” rather than “scarred,” and think that she was upset and carrying on, crying, and making a lot of noise, which customers found upsetting, as opposed to finding her appearance upsetting, and not read past the title, after making an incorrect assumption.

Since the word is “scarred,” not “scared,” he’s probably wrong, but who knows? Other people could misread the word as well.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/66 "2014-06-18T04:06:02Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> I think he thinks some people would misread the article as the girl being “scared,” rather than “scarred,” and think that she was upset and carrying on, crying, and making a lot of noise, which customers found upsetting, as opposed to finding her appearance upsetting, and not read past the title, after making an incorrect assumption.
> 
> Since the word is “scarred,” not “scared,” he’s probably wrong, but who knows? Other people could misread the word as well.

Or he thought people would misread ‘scaring’ as ‘giving scars to’ (‘scar-ing’ as opposed to ‘scare-ing’), which is totally bizarre (the word for that is ‘scarifying’) but, Hell, so was his post.

Scar and scar. What is scare?

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/67 "2014-06-18T04:18:56Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> It sounds like hush money to me too. :rolleyes:

Either I’m misunderstanding the situation or you don’t appear to know what “hush money” is.

“Hush money” is paid as part of an arrangement by which someone agrees to stop complaining.

KFC just paid for some medical bills, no strings attached. The girl and her supporters have not agreed to anything, as I’m understanding it.

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**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/68 "2014-06-18T04:25:43Z")

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> [@Princhester](#):
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> Either I’m misunderstanding the situation or you don’t appear to know what “hush money” is.
> 
> “Hush money” is paid as part of an arrangement by which someone agrees to stop complaining.
> 
> KFC just paid for some medical bills, no strings attached. The girl and her supporters have not agreed to anything, as I’m understanding it.

I also wouldn’t call it hush money. I would call it good PR and attempt to deflect controversy. Like I said, I don’t believe this incident happened as it has been reported, but it’s still probably a smart move on the part of KFC.

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**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/69 "2014-06-18T07:49:36Z")

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> [@lagrippe](#):
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> This was posted on another site. It could be BS, but it sounds reasonable on the face of it:
> 
> If anyone was wondering, apparently this isn’t the real story of what happened. According to people in the town, Kelly (the grandmother) had approached the store manager to ask that they throw several children out because they were staring at Victoria. Not making fun of her or bullying her, just staring. The manager had no reason to throw them out because they weren’t being openly rude or nasty to the point of unreasonableness, so she refused. Then the grandmother started getting angry because the manager wouldn’t do what she said and became so disruptive that she was the one asked to leave. At no point did anyone say that they were being thrown out of the store because of the injuries to Victoria’s face.

I think too that this is how people’s minds work. Grandma feels guilty for the familie’s dogs causing the incident. Wants to “protect” the kid by “defending” her against others. Even when there is no attack, just a few kids staring, the grandma makes it into an attack and overreacts. First aganst the kids, then against management, then against her own granddaughter.

With KFC donating 30.000 and volunteers donating 20.000 to the family, it seems to have paid off, too. It speaks highly for most peoples decency and the checks and balances in place that this happens so rarely.

What I would like to know, is how the grandmother got from seething in her car next to the crying girl, to a viral media campaign. Did she go to a local media outlet? Post it on Facebook? How did the media get wind of such an juicy recreational outrage story?

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/70 "2014-06-18T12:28:47Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> I guess there’s a reason I don’t run a large public corporation. Because, as heartless as the incident was, I still don’t think KFC owes her anything more than an apology, and firing the jerk who threw her out.

I think most of us here aren’t suggesting that KFC _owes_ her money. But if you’re running KFC, and your choices are:

A) pay $30K and score some positive publicity, or

B) pay nothing and have the general public default to believing KFC is a total asshole unworthy of its customers (regardless of what actually happened that day),

which option would you choose?

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/71 "2014-06-18T12:45:47Z")

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We all want to think we live in a civilized society. We don’t. Three day old wounds are not scars, they are wounds, with blood and other fluids that soak through bandages.

There are self-absorbed adults and even more teens that believe their own comfort supersedes everyone elses. If a leaky dressing is within their eye sight, it needs to be banished.

Dog bites don’t get stitched up, so gaping, weepy wounds could very well make that guy who pulls in front of you on the freeway, because his time is more important than yours, complain to managment, or even confront the parent or grandparent.

Just because someone is saying they were wronged in a public place doesn’t make them attention whores, especially if they are defending the rights and well being of a beloved child.

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**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/72 "2014-06-18T12:47:45Z")

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Well, what if Wendys had just paid the lady with the finger in her chili before investigating the claim?  
Not that I begrudge the little girl some help, but we should be thoughtful about it.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/73 "2014-06-18T12:56:00Z")

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> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> Well, what if Wendys had just paid the lady with the finger in her chili before investigating the claim?  
> Not that I begrudge the little girl some help, but we should be thoughtful about it.

That is not even closely analogous to this situation IMHO.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/74 "2014-06-18T12:56:48Z")

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> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> Well, what if Wendys had just paid the lady with the finger in her chili before investigating the claim?  
> Not that I begrudge the little girl some help, but we should be thoughtful about it.

The girl is an _innocent_ in this matter. If her grandmother was to blame for the events that happened, does that make her less deserving of KFC’s charity?

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/75 "2014-06-18T13:25:40Z")

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> [@picunurse](#):
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> Dog bites don’t get stitched up

Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t, so bacteria isn’t stitched into the wound, but rather allowed to drain out, but sometimes they do get stitched up. It just depends on the wound. I know people, including my husband, who have had dog bites stitched up.

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/76 "2014-06-18T14:19:20Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t, so bacteria isn’t stitched into the wound, but rather allowed to drain out, but sometimes they do get stitched up. It just depends on the wound. I know people, including my husband, who have had dog bites stitched up.

There may be isolated cases, but for the most part, servere dog bites don’t get stitched right away. They are allowed to heal and drain and prove the’re no infection. Then plastic surgery comes along and does their magic.  
Having been an ER nurse for at least a quarter of my forty year career, I saw lots of bites, very few stitches, especially with small children.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/77 "2014-06-18T14:31:58Z")

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Regardless, a draining wound was probably bandaged, while one with stitches may not have been, and stitches may have looked even worse than a bandage, even one that was pink-tinged. It’s hard to keep children from staring, no matter how much you tell them it isn’t polite. The girl probably was getting stared at, but if the grandmother really expected the restaurant employee to order people to leave, she was out of line. For the next couple of weeks, the girl is probably going to get stared at a lot. She might as well start dealing with it.

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**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/78 "2014-06-18T14:45:13Z")

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> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#):
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> It would be too scary. Besides, I think someone may have thought this story was a joke because of the similarity between the words “scared” and “scared”.
> 
> I used to know all about homynoms and synonyms and other words like that. But I now can’t seem to remember what you call the two words “scared” and “scared”.
> 
> I also no longer think it’s at all amusing or interesting. IMO, it’s just a waste of human brain cells to give a shit about any of the fallout.  
> [Homonym - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym)
> 
> In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but may have different meanings.[1] Thus homonyms are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling). The state of being a homonym is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of right). A distinction is sometimes made between “true” homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal).[2][3]
> 
> In non-technical contexts, the term “homonym” may be used (somewhat confusingly) to refer to words that are either homographs or homophones.[1] In this looser sense, the word row (propel with oars) and row (argument) and row (a linear arrangement of seating) are considered homonyms, as are the words read (peruse) and reed (waterside plant).  
> [Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071008153647AA2G7yg)  
> A homonym  
> … is one of a group of words that share the same spelling or pronunciation (or both) but have different meanings. The state of being a homonym is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are stalk (which can mean either part of a plant or to follow someone around) and the trio of words to, too and two (actually, to, to, too, too and two, being “for the purpose of” as in “to make it easier”, the opposite of “from”, also, excessively, and “2”, respectively). Some sources state that homonym meanings must be unrelated in origin (rather than just different). Thus right (correct) and right (opposed to left) would be polysemous (see below) and not be homonyms.  
> An antonym…  
> is a word or term which is opposite to another, such as flammable and non-flammable, as opposed to synonymous (ie, two words or terms having the same or nearly the same meaning, such as joyful and glad).  
> A synonym …  
> two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context Example: lawyer = attorney.

How does this post have anything to do with the topic?

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**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-year-old-girl-with-scars-asked-to-leave-kfc-because-she-was-scaring-the-customers/690863/79 "2014-06-18T20:23:23Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
>
> He said “somewhat supportive,” not “absolute proof.” Between the two options, it is more likely that the lack of video supports the complainant’s story. That doesn’t mean there aren’t other reasons that would make that moot.

I’m saying that it \*doesn’t \*count even as being ‘more supportive’.

You already morphed the ‘somewhat supportive’ into ‘more likely’. There’s no reason for this escalation, and, the lack of video means absolutely nothing, which is much less than ‘somewhat supportive’ and ‘more likely’ in any scenario in which there are no facts.

It may mean that they hadn’t even watched it, or that they didn’t have a camera on the family. When I worked fast foods, there were no cameras on anywhere except where cash registers were.  
There could be 10,000 good reasons for not firing a video all over Youtube that KFC chose to not release a video.

I read this morning that KFC paid out 30K to the family. Pretty awesome.

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> … does that make her less deserving of KFC’s charity?

I think that, by definition, all charity is _undeserved_.

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