• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    6 hours ago

    It says words, not phrases. So you’re not allowed to use “I,” “use,” “by,” “the,” “way,” or “and.”

  • 8osm3rka@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    8 hours ago

    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.

    • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      38 minutes ago

      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
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        23 minutes ago

        yeah this just basically “come up with a bunch new things that’ll annoy us”

      • Batman@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        22 minutes ago

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

    • beneeney@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      7 hours ago

      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.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    68
    ·
    edit-2
    10 hours ago

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

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    53
    ·
    11 hours ago

    This must be out of date, there’s no big back or turning Ohio or anything.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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      8 hours ago

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

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    10 hours ago

    “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
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      edit-2
      9 hours ago

      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
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        9 hours ago

        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.