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by jameshart 344 days ago
The original poster said they were worried about this leading to "highering illiterate officers"

Mis-spelling the word 'hiring' as 'highering' when expressing a fear about falling literacy standards in the police is ironic, and therefore funny.

Further elaboration was not warranted, but I'm providing it as a public service.
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alganet 344 days ago
Highering is an existing, valid word, and it fits the phrase.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/highering

I agree that it is an unusual choice, but that doesn't mean you can assume it was a mispelling.

Moreover, the meaning went through. Ultimately, the word itself does not matter, and none of your explanations are relevant.

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kortilla 344 days ago
That word doesn’t make any sense in this context. Stop digging this hole further FFS.
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alganet 344 days ago
It makes complete sense, it means "promotion" in that phrase.

If you are going to disagree, please elaborate.

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kortilla 343 days ago
No, nobody ever says “I’m going to higher you” as a way to indicate they are promoting you. Not in the military, not in non-profits, not in the government, and not in any private or public business in the US.

“Higher” is a homophone with “hire” and “hire” already has a critical role in reference to career management.

At this point I can only assume you haven’t worked somewhere where English is the spoken language.

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alganet 342 days ago
> No, nobody ever says “I’m going to higher you”

People say they want to move up the corporate ladder, which implies higher, and brings a visual analogy to the phrase that is compatible with what I said.

There is no adverbial expression using the radical "up". The adverbiality must come from "high".

> “Higher” is a homophone with “hire” and “hire”

This phrase doesn't make sense.

> At this point I can only assume you haven’t worked somewhere where English is the spoken language.

What you assume doesnt't matter. Where I worked or not doesn't matter.

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kortilla 336 days ago
> This phrase doesn't make sense

Because English is clearly not a language you have a day to day grasp on. Read the rest of the sentence. You weren’t able to correctly split a compound sentence.

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