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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsProud mom orders "Summa Cum Laude" cake online. Publix censors it: Summa ... Laude.
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Proud mom orders Summa Cum Laude cake online. Publix censors it: Summa Laude.
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Proud mom orders Summa Cum Laude cake online. Publix censors it: Summa Laude.
By Amber Ferguson May 22 at 5:19 AM [link:amber.ferguson@washpost.com|Email the author]
Saturday was Jacob Koscinskis big day. His whole family, many from out of town, saw the Charleston, S.C., student graduate from his Christian-based home-school program with a 4.89 grade-point average and the coveted honor of summa cum laude.
His mother, Cara Koscinski organized a graduation party for her 18-year-old son. For the occasion, she ordered a cake online from her nearest grocery store, Publix, which lets customers build their own cakes complete with a customized inscription, which they enter into a message box marked cake message option. ... Carefully, she typed in the words she wanted on the cake: Congrats Jacob! Summa Cum Laude class of 2018. ... Publixs online system was unhappy with the word cum.
In Latin, cum is the preposition with, as in summa cum laude, with the highest distinction. To the little box on the Publix website, however, the word meant something else and its strict algorithm, vigilant for naughty words, returned a message that said profane/special characters not allowed. Cum, which contains no special characters, was deemed profane.
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Cake day arrived. ... Koscinski said she was so busy preparing things for the celebration, that she sent her husband and sister to the store to get some last minute items and to pick up the cake. ... When they returned, everyone gathered around the cake. When they opened the box, there it was: Congrats Jacob! Summa Laude Class of 2018. ... Jacob was absolutely humiliated, Koscinski said to The Post. It was unbelievable. I ordered the special graduation edition cake. I cant believe Im the first one to ever write Summa Cum Laude on a cake.
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Amber Ferguson is the Morning Mix video editor for The Washington Post. She previously worked as the Politics video editor at HuffPost where she covered the 2016 presidential campaign. She joined The Post in 2017. Follow @Ms_AmberDawn
Proud mom orders Summa Cum Laude cake online. Publix censors it: Summa Laude.
By Amber Ferguson May 22 at 5:19 AM [link:amber.ferguson@washpost.com|Email the author]
Saturday was Jacob Koscinskis big day. His whole family, many from out of town, saw the Charleston, S.C., student graduate from his Christian-based home-school program with a 4.89 grade-point average and the coveted honor of summa cum laude.
His mother, Cara Koscinski organized a graduation party for her 18-year-old son. For the occasion, she ordered a cake online from her nearest grocery store, Publix, which lets customers build their own cakes complete with a customized inscription, which they enter into a message box marked cake message option. ... Carefully, she typed in the words she wanted on the cake: Congrats Jacob! Summa Cum Laude class of 2018. ... Publixs online system was unhappy with the word cum.
In Latin, cum is the preposition with, as in summa cum laude, with the highest distinction. To the little box on the Publix website, however, the word meant something else and its strict algorithm, vigilant for naughty words, returned a message that said profane/special characters not allowed. Cum, which contains no special characters, was deemed profane.
....
Cake day arrived. ... Koscinski said she was so busy preparing things for the celebration, that she sent her husband and sister to the store to get some last minute items and to pick up the cake. ... When they returned, everyone gathered around the cake. When they opened the box, there it was: Congrats Jacob! Summa Laude Class of 2018. ... Jacob was absolutely humiliated, Koscinski said to The Post. It was unbelievable. I ordered the special graduation edition cake. I cant believe Im the first one to ever write Summa Cum Laude on a cake.
....
Amber Ferguson is the Morning Mix video editor for The Washington Post. She previously worked as the Politics video editor at HuffPost where she covered the 2016 presidential campaign. She joined The Post in 2017. Follow @Ms_AmberDawn
As someone noted in the comments at the WaPo, I'm not sure how someone can be graduated from a "Christian-based home-school program" and be considered "summa cum laude." Who makes that decision?
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Proud mom orders "Summa Cum Laude" cake online. Publix censors it: Summa ... Laude. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2018
OP
We are truly in the land of Idiocracy, and I really mean that in a really serious way. n/t
RKP5637
May 2018
#3
I can't get into politics in the DU Lounge, but here's more about Publix:
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2018
#6
oh dear baker exercises its rights to object on moral grounds and xtians go nuts lol nt
msongs
May 2018
#12
dhill926
(16,333 posts)1. thereby bringing more attention to it....
we are becoming a nation of imbeciles....
RKP5637
(67,101 posts)3. We are truly in the land of Idiocracy, and I really mean that in a really serious way. n/t
RKP5637
(67,101 posts)2. FFS!!! n/t
rurallib
(62,401 posts)4. by leaving the word out it goes from no story to a nationwide story
Well done, Publix!
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)5. Who can be surprised?
I mean, I assume the person who decorated this went to a US school.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,359 posts)6. I can't get into politics in the DU Lounge, but here's more about Publix:
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)7. Summa cum not as loud as others
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)10. LOL!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)11. Magna cum laude
But not as laude as her sister.
I graduated with a cum laude, go laude, and cum again laude.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)9. He graduated at the bottom of his class. What's to celebrate?
msongs
(67,381 posts)12. oh dear baker exercises its rights to object on moral grounds and xtians go nuts lol nt
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)13. "go nuts"
perfect word choice
DFW
(54,325 posts)14. A so-called "Christian-based" organization should have SOMEONE in it who passed Latin I
But, no, ignorance rules, so they take out dirty words like "with." Bill Maher was right: Religulous!
malthaussen
(17,183 posts)15. Well, he should have been more quiet about it. n/t