4d ago

Banned words

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this is the end of the world

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.

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

Not allowing Miku Miku Beams is reasonable tbh. Firing one of those off can level cities.
- Isn't it the one that shoots black holes?

I shall say 'Ni!' again
- Alas, sir knight...
  
  I demand a shrubery

miku miku beam
blasphemy

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

All words starting with N are banned I guess, like I use *ixOS btw
- Niagara Falls and Nebraska. Any children whose names start with N - sorry little Neighthan, Nanceigh, and Naruto.
  
  Naaron (Nay-ay-ron)

This must be out of date, there's no big back or turning Ohio or anything. Not even a "ACkShuLly it's GNU...."
- My kid and his friends didn't make up big back?? This list is old? Fuck. I'm at that point... I know nothing.
  
  Nah this list is up to date. Italian brain rot is still fresh, fresher than any Ohio meme
- Ohio is ancient, nay! Prehistoric compared to tralalero tralala
- 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 But you are the one out of date.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.

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.
- Try teaching middle school. You’ll understand. That being said, teachers mostly do this as a joke.
  
  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.
  
  Nah few teachers are actually serious about it. My cousin is a school teacher, she takes all these a little too seriously
- 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.
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  yeah this just basically "come up with a bunch new things that'll annoy us"
- I remember one of my teachers banning "doh!". It didn't last very long.
- Also of all the words banned, there is only one they are not allowed to spell

I don't not use Arch, by the way
- Stattdessen nutze ich Bogen.
  
  Ich nutze Unternehmungs-Betriebssystem, an dem Weg.

It says words, not phrases. So you're not allowed to use "I," "use," "by," "the," "way," or "and."
- Me utilises masonry bow, coincidentally
  
  Why use many word when few word do trick.
- They really hate "Miku" so they added it twice
  
  Wait until you hear about "tung"
- That would actually be an interesting challenge for an English class.

Funny. I use arch by the way.... 😉

I don't use Ubuntu, by the way.
- I use Ubuntu just to trigger people.
  
  I use Arch to trigger elitists
- I use neither Arch nor Ubuntu, btw
- The Linux version of "I went to college ^{outside of} Boston"
  
  Most colleges are outside of Boston, classmate!

Add "absolute cinema"
- Based.

noo not miku miku beam >.<
- you still have miko miko nurse and neko miko reimu at least?

Gyatt! Low key, I Use Arch, By The Way, High key Alpha.
- What the Sigma?

foul language and n words
- All the words that start with n are banned
  
  Noooooooo!!!!
  Oh, sorry....
  Ooooooooooo!!!!!!

I manhandle Manjaro.

red ellipsoid
- I use stretch-ed Debian btw
  
  I hope it doesn't have a gaping security hole
- Pointing at whitespace and showing ominous going on with the letters contained in the ellipsoid

I use Nyarch, by the way. :3

Mikuru beam desu.

Chicken jockey
Deez nutz

"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.
- 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!
  
  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.
  
  Thanks, chatgpt, it's always so meaningful to hear what you have to say.
- it says n words they're allowed to have one

I like how foul language etc is halfway down the list

I use LFS btw

What is your favorite distro and why is it Arch?
- Wiki and pacman
  
  Honestly 2 amazing reasons.
  
  Yeah pacman is a fun game and the wiki for it is great /s
- I get to break shit and it's my own, perfectly avoidable fault and not the work of some careless greybeard on another continent.

foul language and N-words
All of them? 🤔
How you gonna teach English without being able to teach nouns?
- 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.

Do I hear NixOS mentioned?
- No N-words

The Italian brain rot really got me tho. Tung tung tung tung tung... Sahur!
- Sorry I’m an old. What is Tung tung tung tung
  
  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.
  
  That thing at the bottom of your Mouth mouth mouth mouth
  
  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

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

I assume high key was the class response to low key being banned, but I'm not up on the lingo.
- It just means the opposite of low-key. The logic kinda tracks. I can't imagine why it would be banned.

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

"Any key"

Those are mostly sentences
- Phrases
  
  Semantic constructs. Audiosemiotic conceptualizations. Wordy McWordwords!
- Those are ~~mostly~~ highkey sentences

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