Banned words

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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 99 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Not allowing Miku Miku Beams is reasonable tbh. Firing one of those off can level cities.

emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Isn't it the one that shoots black holes?

maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 1y

I was already gonna make fun of the useless red circle, you didn't need to misplace it lol

KiwiTB@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 1y

Looks like they banned how to use image editing software as well.

cm0002@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 1y (4 replies)

This must be out of date, there's no big back or turning Ohio or anything. Not even a "ACkShuLly it's GNU...."

blazeknave@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

My kid and his friends didn't make up big back?? This list is old? Fuck. I'm at that point... I know nothing.

alcibiades@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

Nah this list is up to date. Italian brain rot is still fresh, fresher than any Ohio meme

theblips@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

Ohio is ancient, nay! Prehistoric compared to tralalero tralala

dustyData@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

My friend, sorry to break it to you. But you are the one out of date. Big back and turning Ohio are long gone. Those kids are already on the “I'm too cool to like my childhood things anymore” stage.

AnotherPenguin@programming.dev · 56 pts · 1y (4 replies)

All words starting with N are banned I guess, like I use *ixOS btw

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Niagara Falls and Nebraska. Any children whose names start with N - sorry little Neighthan, Nanceigh, and Naruto.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Naaron (Nay-ay-ron)

Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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8osm3rka@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 1y (14 replies)

The concept of "banned words" (other than the offensive stuff, of course) in a classroom is so funny to me. There is no way that the person who came up with that wasn't the sourest loser ever.

beneeney@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I always assumed (hoped) these were put up as jokes by the teachers. "Dang it Jeremy that's another one for the board!" type of banter.

Bluewing@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

It often is. Teachers understand those kids need to have something that they can call their own. Every generation does these things with language.

But I'm sure there are some teachers out there that foolishly try to squash the words.

Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Try teaching middle school. You’ll understand. That being said, teachers mostly do this as a joke.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I'm a school bus driver and we're supposed to not allow foul language. It's only a problem on the middle school runs, and it's not really worth the effort on my part to do anything about it. I'm just happy when I can unload all the kids and nothing has been set on fire.

Bluewing@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

School bus driving--- Mixing truck driving with zoo keeping.........

Good Luck out there! Keep your sanity! I'm pulling for you!

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

School bus driving— Mixing truck driving with zoo keeping…

That's a great description - except zoo keepers have bars and glass plates to protect them from the animals.

anarchy79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

"What's the matter Lisa? You're usually the first one out of this deathtrap!"

brown_guy@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Nah few teachers are actually serious about it. My cousin is a school teacher, she takes all these a little too seriously

Bluewing@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I taught math for a couple of years in my local rural school. The fastest way to get kids to stop using certain annoying words or phrases was to start using them myself. It absolutely ruined the vibe they were going for. Particularity if you used them wrong.

Still, it seems kids need that type of 'creative' outlet.

JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch · 20 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Plus kids will find a way. Our english teacher didn't want us to say 'shit', but to use 'sugar' instead.

There was a lot of 'bullsugar' and similar in that class.

pyre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

yeah this just basically "come up with a bunch new things that'll annoy us"

IzzyScissor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I remember that the vice principal of our Christian high school was annoyed with us saying 'gosh darn', and made the mistake of telling us, "If you're going to say 'gosh darn', you might as well say 'god damn', because that's what you really mean, and the Lort knows your heart."

... We all just started flat-out saying 'god damn' like we were told.

sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y

I remember one of my teachers banning "doh!". It didn't last very long.

slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · -1 pts · 1y

Also of all the words banned, there is only one they are not allowed to spell

goatinspace@feddit.org · 43 pts · 1y (6 replies)

I don't use Ubuntu, by the way.

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I use Ubuntu just to trigger people.

sanderium@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I use Arch to trigger elitists

axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 1y

I use NixOS to trigger Arch users

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 1y

I use neither Arch nor Ubuntu, btw

hansolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The Linux version of "I went to college ^outside of^ Boston"

lars@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y

Most colleges are outside of Boston, classmate!

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 1y (5 replies)

It says words, not phrases. So you're not allowed to use "I," "use," "by," "the," "way," or "and."

wieson@feddit.org · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Me utilises masonry bow, coincidentally

Tja@programming.dev · 10 pts · 1y

Why use many word when few word do trick.

RandomVideos@programming.dev · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They really hate "Miku" so they added it twice

Zabjam@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

Wait until you hear about "tung"

Hupf@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y

That would actually be an interesting challenge for an English class.

HouseWolf@pawb.social · 36 pts · 1y

My entire school had a banned words list they put on a board near the main door.

I remember walking in past the board one morning only to get pulled back by a friend, he didn't say anything just stood pointing at the board....They added 'Milf' to the list of banned words.

BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I don't not use Arch, by the way

nodiratime@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Stattdessen nutze ich Bogen.

boomzilla@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

Ich nutze Unternehmungs-Betriebssystem, an dem Weg.

17lifers@sopuli.xyz · 32 pts · 1y (1 reply)

noo not miku miku beam >.<

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

you still have miko miko nurse and neko miko reimu at least?

lemmyknow@lemmy.today · 31 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I shall say 'Ni!' again

OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Alas, sir knight...

lemmyknow@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y

I demand a shrubery

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 1y (2 replies)

foul language and n words

Hubi@feddit.org · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

All the words that start with n are banned

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y

Noooooooo!!!!

Oh, sorry....

Ooooooooooo!!!!!!

5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 1y (3 replies)

red ellipsoid

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I use stretch-ed Debian btw

5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

I hope it doesn't have a gaping security hole

Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

Pointing at whitespace and showing ominous going on with the letters contained in the ellipsoid

jbk@discuss.tchncs.de · 23 pts · 1y

miku miku beam

blasphemy

MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Add "absolute cinema"

Klear@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Based.

Justas@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y

I manhandle Manjaro.

palordrolap@fedia.io · 14 pts · 1y (6 replies)

"N-words" plural? I can imagine edgy students going out of their way to avoid all words starting with that letter as a result of that rule, just to be difficult.

The sign itself lacks words starting with that letter other than the rule which bans it, and the separate quoting of one word that has one in it somewhere suggests they're allowed as long as they're unspecified on the list (otherwise that entry would have been omitted), so it's entirely possible to misinterpret.

On the other hand, avoiding all words starting with that letter seems like a fun idea, but will people even be able to tell? And it's surprisingly hard to express some concepts without it.

lime@feddit.nu · 13 pts · 1y (4 replies)

i see what you're up to here. you've created your whole post without words that start with that particular letter. i do disagree that it's hard to express yourself without it however; it's perfectly possible, i'd say simple, actually, to completely erase the letter from your vocabulary. i'm able to get by perfectly well without a sole use of it, all with perfect legibility. yes, i'd go as far as to say that it's probably close to the bottom of the list of letters when if ordered by value. get rid of it, i say. to optimize the alphabet is to get our speech closer to the speed of thought. after that, we can will start to chip at the big boys; your time has come, S!

palordrolap@fedia.io · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

when

can

Almost. You did well, but it's too hard for me, except maybe for short phrases like this, which, regardless, still requires effort well above my comfort. It's the sixth most used letter by some measures. Seek out the typesetters' placeholder phrase where the first "word" has it as last (sixth), place, before the successor "SHRDLU", which show the order of the most used letters of, uh, latter-day British? Oof. Edit: Modified to avoid a superfluous usage.

This hurts, so it's time for me to stop.

lime@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 1y

FUCK

anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Thanks, chatgpt, it's always so meaningful to hear what you have to say.

lime@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 1y

i don't know if you're being ironic but that does make me sad to hear. took me like 25 minutes and i still messed it up, but i had fun writing it all out and i hoped others would find it fun to. that my writing is apparently that soulless is disheartening.

fwiw i would never post llm output unmarked. i don't think people deserve that.

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y

it says n words they're allowed to have one

9point6@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

I like how foul language etc is halfway down the list

sanderium@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y (4 replies)

What is your favorite distro and why is it Arch?

ashenone@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Wiki and pacman

jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

Honestly 2 amazing reasons.

Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Yeah pacman is a fun game and the wiki for it is great /s

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 1y

I get to break shit and it's my own, perfectly avoidable fault and not the work of some careless greybeard on another continent.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

foul language and N-words

All of them? 🤔

How you gonna teach English without being able to teach nouns?

sylver_dragon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

How you gonna teach English without being able to teach nouns words which describe people, places or things?

FTFY, you dirty n-word user you.

stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Gyatt! Low key, I Use Arch, By The Way, High key Alpha.

Gork@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y

What the Sigma?

hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 1y

Mikuru beam desu.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Chicken jockey
Deez nutz

meekah@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (5 replies)

The Italian brain rot really got me tho. Tung tung tung tung tung... Sahur!

RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Sorry I’m an old. What is Tung tung tung tung

anarchy79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

The all knowing robot told me it's meant to mimic the sound of heavy running.

Considering some of the other banned words on the list, some fat kid is getting bullied in that class.

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

That thing at the bottom of your Mouth mouth mouth mouth

meekah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

https://youtu.be/HmIMmFAV4BY

The only context I could give is that there are similar videos, for example one of a plane with crocodile features where the voice keeps saying (bombardillo crocodillo". It's just random = funny humor, I think

dustyData@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

It's just fun with alliteration. It is not so random if you know Italian, they are basically alliterative puns. Sahur is Indonesian, there are version with several languages who have come up with it in the same spirit as the Italian original ones. Usually accompanied by shitty AI renders, because, well using gen ai images is en vogue.

ceenote@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

They say there are multiple but failed to say which is prohibited, so I will avoid all words that use that letter.

Zyratoxx@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y

I use Nyarch, by the way. :3

spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I assume high key was the class response to low key being banned, but I'm not up on the lingo.

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

It just means the opposite of low-key. The logic kinda tracks. I can't imagine why it would be banned.

devilish666@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I use LFS btw

l3m05@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Funny. I use arch by the way.... 😉

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

- "Any key"

MelloniDev@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y

lolrightythen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

One of these line items isn't like the rest.

anarchy79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I figured it was generally understood that that one is a no-go in most all situations. I mean you only need to do it once to learn what happens if you do.

Damage@feddit.it · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Those are mostly sentences

tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Phrases

anarchy79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Semantic constructs. Audiosemiotic conceptualizations. Wordy McWordwords!

5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Those are mostly highkey sentences

rickdg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Do I hear NixOS mentioned?

kholby@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

No N-words

neketos851@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y

this is the end of the world