Warriors owner uses ‘hoodish’ in email to team employees, says he meant ‘Yiddish’
Oct 28, 2014, 9:14 AM EDT
We may need to just ban NBA owners from using email at this point.
Earlier this summer, a member of the Hawks ownership group told on himself for using offensive language in a 2012 email, which resulted in him selling his stake in the team.
Now, we have Warriors co-owner Peter Guber in a similar situation, although this one doesn’t appear to be nearly as troublesome on the surface.
From Marc Spears of Yahoo Sports:
Golden State Warriors co-owner Peter Guber expressed regret to team employees late Monday for listing “hoodish” as a language he planned to learn in reply to an email commending the franchise for having five international players on this season’s roster. Guber said he meant to type “Yiddish,” and did not realize his mistake until it was pointed out to him by a Warriors official. …
Guber’s email, which was sent from his phone and obtained by Yahoo Sports, came after the NBA announced in a news release earlier Monday that the league’s 30 teams will have a record 101 international players from 37 countries and territories on opening-night rosters for the upcoming season. …
Guber responded to the email by writing, “I’m taking rosetta stone to learn Hungarian Serbian Australian swahili and hoodish This year. But it’s nice.” …
“Someone just brought to my attention that an email I responded to earlier contains the word ‘hoodish,’ which I don’t even think Is a Word, and certainly not the one I intended to use,” Guber wrote in the email. “I intended to type Yiddish. Either my mobile fone [sic] autocorrected or it was typed wrong. In any event I regret if anyone was unintendedly [sic] offended.”
A couple of thoughts here.
This does seem unintentional, because especially in light of what transpired with the Hawks, no one (we think) would be stupid enough to make an attempt at humor that could be construed as racially insensitive over an email to a large group of employees. And, the letters ‘h’ and ‘o’ are right next to the ones he claimed he was trying to type in the word Yiddish in ‘y’ and ‘i’, respectively.
But, the “regret” email that followed appears to be trying a little too hard to hammer that point home — seriously, no one spells the word phone that way, and there’s no autocorrect in the world (even if he was dictating via voice) that would change it to read like that.
Again, this seems like a regretful but unintentional mistake. Unless there’s a history of remarks like this from Guber, let’s leave it at that for now.
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- yoda0415 - Oct 28, 2014 at 9:23 AM
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It’s common knowledge that autocorrect is racist. Duh.
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- edon8334 - Oct 28, 2014 at 9:25 AM
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sensitivity training coming in 3..2..1
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- ProBasketballPundit - Oct 28, 2014 at 9:39 AM
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Learning Yiddish is racist too…. technically speaking.
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- 22yearsagotoday - Oct 28, 2014 at 11:05 AM
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You mishooginah!
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- djlexluger - Oct 28, 2014 at 9:41 AM
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Yiddish wouldn’t be autocorrected but ok.
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- asimonetti88 - Oct 28, 2014 at 11:20 AM
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What a Guber.
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- arb927 - Oct 28, 2014 at 10:09 AM
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When is everybody gonna realize that prob half or maybe ever more of the nba owners are racist… They are rich white men who think they are better than everybody else..
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- bigmeechy74 - Oct 28, 2014 at 11:18 AM
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hot take
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- dgforreal - Oct 28, 2014 at 10:12 AM
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I don’t think hoodish would be an auto correct choice unless it was typed before.
I get many autocorrect options when mistyping Yiddish and hoodish isn’t one of them.
hoodish gets autocorrected to goodish every time I’ve typed it in this comment.
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- paleihe - Oct 28, 2014 at 12:33 PM
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Once I was autocorrected to have ‘super’ turn into ‘SUPERHOTGLUESEXY’.
Have no clue where that came from. Never have I ever wanted to type SUPERHOTGLUESEXY.
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- dgforreal - Oct 28, 2014 at 10:14 AM
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what’s even better…
hoddish gets auto corrected to Yiddish…
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- truehooper1421 - Oct 28, 2014 at 2:33 PM
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“hoodish gets autocorrected to goodish every time I’ve typed it in this comment
So which is it?
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- phinagain - Oct 28, 2014 at 10:24 AM
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I don’t doubt it could have been auotocorrected, especially if he was using an Android phone with the “Swype” feature. I am forever un-correcting “tree” back into “the”, which is what i wanted to write.
Even in writing this comment, it kept turning “auotocorrected” into “architected” and the word “phone” turned into “pogo.” I also always get “ifs” instead of “is.”
I’ll give him a pass on this one, as he was clearly listing a bunch of foreign languages, of which Yiddish is one. Interestingly, I’m not encountering that problem with the word in question; I get Yiddish without fail, even trying to write “hoodish.” But maybe he was using an iPhone.
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- truehooper1421 - Oct 28, 2014 at 2:34 PM
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TURN THE AUTOCORRECT OFF
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- cplwebberusmc - Oct 29, 2014 at 11:48 AM
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I’m from the south and routinely refer to my friends as fella’s. My autocorrect always changes it to Della’s. (What is a Della???) The other day I was texting my girlfriend about a project she was working on and said “Hooe you get a lot accomplished.” My phone won’t let me say fella’s but I call my girlfriend a hoe and autocorrect does nothing.
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- christdp443 - Oct 28, 2014 at 10:33 AM
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I’m mostly just amused he wants to learn “Australian”. But considering his misspelling of phone & use of “unintendedly”, maybe retaking English wouldn’t be a terrible idea.
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- bigmeechy74 - Oct 28, 2014 at 10:57 AM
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Fire him. Remove him. I hope the Warriors players boycott the start of the season. I know I am. I am not watching this RACIST league until there is some ACTION TAKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
…. just kidding. how could ANYONE care about this?
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- 22yearsagotoday - Oct 28, 2014 at 11:07 AM
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It’s un be Leave abull!
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- phinagain - Oct 28, 2014 at 11:42 AM
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Hahaha! Didn’t even notice his statement about “Australian” before! That’s classic. Once he masters that one, he can start working on “New Zealandish.”
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- nokoolaidcowboy - Oct 28, 2014 at 11:59 AM
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What he REALLY meant were those that wear hoods.
You know the type…no sense of style or fashion whatsoever!
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- truehooper1421 - Oct 28, 2014 at 2:39 PM
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Or the type that:
Are cold
Don’t feel like getting dressed up
Know it’s windy outside but don’t want to bring a hat
Wear skinny jeans (I bet you think that’s stylish) and need somewhere to put their phone/wallet
Want to sneak snacks in the movies
etc.There are many great uses for hoodies.
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- 00maltliquor - Oct 28, 2014 at 12:35 PM
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You know what’s funny about all this? The email was sent from his phone, and if hoodish isn’t a word, then when auto correct or the word suggestion tool bar popped up with that word, it only means that he himself has actually typed and used that word before sonce the phone saves the words you use the most. Lol!
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- amitko - Oct 28, 2014 at 12:38 PM
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Lets see how many of those scrutinizing every little thing a person says would survive the same level of scrutiny. Snooping, leaks have done us some good by ridding us of trash like Sterling but this has to stop….I am not very hopeful though..
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- asuthyo - Oct 28, 2014 at 1:24 PM
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What would be most “racially insensitive” about this story (if there were actually anything to be upset about) is assuming that “hoodish” references any particular race; all races have segments of their population that grow up in the “hood”.
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- biggredbird76 - Oct 28, 2014 at 1:27 PM
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Lets face that is how these rich white dudes feel about black folks.
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- truehooper1421 - Oct 28, 2014 at 2:44 PM
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I just really dislike when people make a statement speaking for an entire group of people. All rich white dudes don’t feel all black folks are hoodish or african con artists or whatever.
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- gostlcards5 - Oct 29, 2014 at 1:11 PM
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Brett, there are people that spell phone as “fone”….One of the largest tele-com companies in the world is Vodafone, which I think is based in Britain. Why this guy is spelling it that way, though…anybody’s guess.
