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Stamets @lemmy.world

2w ago

Pure authoritarianism

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My school district is WAY smarter than this, all the teachers and staff just start saying the words more than the kids do until they think it's corny.
- This
  Making lists like that is authoritarian and won't work. Making the words worthless works
  
  Why is it even a goal to stop kids saying these words
  
  Maybe this is why republicans watch child porn so they think it's corny and nobody else does it anymore.
- I am almost 28 and use way more gen z/alpha slang than my 21 year old sister does. It becomes your permanent lexicon after a while and you keep using the words no matter how outdated they are. I say yeet at least once a day still.
  
  Unironically started saying hella after life is strange made me cringe out of my fucking seat when the characters say it.
  Reclaim it like slurs. Lmfao
- I can imagine that working, actually.
  
  As a teacher, I can attest that it works beautifully.
  
  "Ill bless you Youngins🥷 with the Rizz🔥 your gonna need for the low 🔑test on Monday, no cap 🧢💯!!!"
- Students, I'm a total baka hentai amirite?
  Guys??
  
  On god you raw dogged the whole squad with that one cuh

Bruh, on God I'm not even gonna cap - you're being such a sigma male with that low key bussin mood, but say less about the rizz because you're doing too much with that type shit. Gucci fit, and I love that for you, but it's giving major gyatt energy, so no cap, that's high key straight fire, baka!
- So “on God” means like “on God’s authority” or “for reals”?
  
  It’s short for “I swear on god”
- Demerits for misuse of "say less" and "baka". Other than that, high marks!
  "Say less" is etymologically tied to "say no more". It is possible that I am wrong about "baka", because I'm an otaku, but I presume they're using it in the anime way, and not just completely divorcing it from its actual meaning. I might be giving them to much credit.
  
  Doest baka more or less just mean "idiot\stupud"?
- Bet

hastily scribbles fetch on the board
- Stop trying to make fetch happen.
  
  Streets ahead of you
  
  Inappropes

You doin too much
Love that for you
Why?
Also, you can't stop language from changing. Change is certain. We don't talk like people 100 years ago and that's a good thing.
- Those are phrases that get repeated verbatim as responses, which is the hypothetical reason they might be included on this (maaaaybe fake?) list. I'm actually slightly tired of them too, I have a couple students that really overuse them as responses to everything.
  ...Though I'd never be dumb enough to tell them that.
  
  Yeah making a list like this deserves doubling down on that kind of slang.
  
  Love that for you
  
  Yeah, they forgot to put "on my soul" on the list, though the kids at my school are all illiterate, so they just parrot it as "oh my SO".
  Every. Five. Seconds.
  The correct solution here is to just use these back at them at every opportunity. I feed on the cringe every time they say they didn't do something and I get the privilege to respond, flatly and with enunciation: "Cap."
- My guess is they are used sarcastically/ironically and whoever made the board is sick of hearing them.

Can we get a date on this? I don’t see skibidi or sus. And I’m most surprised to see the youths embracing finna
- Based on my experience in the NE U.S., this list is current.
- Skibidi isn't on the list because no one unironically says skibidi. If you think they are, they're trolling you.
  
  I didn’t think unironic usage was a prereq for this list, just overuse/disruptive to a classroom

It took me a while to realize this wasn’t a lookup table
- Me too. Felt old before realizing it wasn't a lookup table and then felt older after realizing it was a simple list.

Finna has come back?
- It’s never gone away!

If my kid ever comes home from school with a picture like this I'm having words with the teacher. Let the children have their fun ffs
- The principal is getting a 3 hour tense but polite discussion on prescriptivism vs descriptivism and he's going to be defending descriptivism whether he likes it or nor and he's going to lose the entire while being simply unable to hangup. This will never happen again.

On my list ...
Um
Like
Perfect
Know what I mean?
End of the day.

I hate finna more than all the others.
- it's AAVE, not made up, and there's literally no reason why "gonna" should be more legit. it's the exact same construction.
  
  None of those words will make me like it.
  
  “Going to” is far superior to “fixing to,” so I don’t know what you are talking about.
  
  I mean it's as made up as any other slang
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QQDAKxUIk from a linguist about finna (and gonna and other things)
  
  Yesssss it's language Jones!

Kids are gonna kids
I don't understand what teachers think a "banned words list" is gonna accomplish except being the new target of bored kids/teens
(Unless they're just tired of hearing it, but this isn't a good solution imo)

Type S? Not an Acura fan?

It's such a bizarre list too.
They're not cusses. What's wrong with "love that for you"? I could've easily seen myself saying that in 2009, is the meaning vastly different than what I think?
- Bless your heart
- It's passive aggressive
  
  Spent my whole High School career being passive aggressive, because swearing was the bridge too far.
  If you can't even be passive aggressive you may as well never leave your front door.

Where grimace shake and skibidi shit

Literally 1984

How did all of this brain damage manifest itself?

start listing them out continuously untill you get expelled

Sweet fresh words. You da bomb, right list of legit dope slang. Boyah!

Why are grandmas banned, what did the do

This list is missing "on my soul", which the illiterate children at my school (who have only ever heard it on snaptok and facegram, and are only poorly parroting it) replace with "oh my SO".

And here I thought that they misspelt 'banal'...

Every cohort of kids will have their slang and in-jokey vocabulary, a very small part of which will be entered permanently into the lexicon. I'd like to nominate "rizz" as this generation's contribution.
- skibidi [adj.]
  nonsense (derogatory)
  That's my pick.
  
  Nah, that one is going to be emblematic of this period. In 2035 they're going to look back at videos from 2024 and hear all the skibidi and cringe the same way we do looking back at 2006 and hearing "FAIL!" every other word.
- Man, rizz is the new yeet, and both belong on the pedestal of excellent slang.
  Im finna yeet rizz into heavy rotation

And again I am banned.

On god I have a co-worker named Riz though. Straight bussin’.

Gucci is banned? …the gang won’t be pleased.

I recall this meme from a year or so back with a different joke attached.

Dude, what a gnarly bunch of dweebs like, you can't use that language, doy!

That's young by my standards and I'm only 28...
- You're old by my standards and I'm already 27...

On da strempf

literally

No Skibidi Ohio? Has this gone out of fashion?

But fReEdOm Of SpEeCh somehow prevents laws against million dollar donations by private companies for elected officials.

So saying the n-word is just fine? Really weird priorities here.
student: "Yo, bro do you have the answer to number 4?"
Teacher: "we don't say this here"
Student: "I'm sorry you fucking teacher cunt"
Teacher: "its fine. just try to remember next time."

This is literally just banning AAVE in class. That teacher probably thinks she's an anti-racist "ally".
- the problem is aave gets appropriated by white kids who abuse an actual dialect for their slang and overuse it.
  
  Gen Z appropriating AAVE and turning it mainstream is probably one of the most annoying things I have to deal with as a black person. Like, yeah, I shouldn't gatekeep language, but can they at least give credit?

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