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Banned words (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Add "absolute cinema"

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

I manhandle Manjaro.

[-] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 hours ago

I don't not use Arch, by the way

[-] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 44 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 25 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] wieson@feddit.org 8 points 3 hours ago

Me utilises masonry bow, coincidentally

[-] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

Why use many word when few word do trick.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago

They really hate "Miku" so they added it twice

[-] Zabjam@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago

Wait until you hear about "tung"

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 37 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

[-] SoleInvictus 14 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] 8osm3rka@lemmy.world 32 points 11 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.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 2 minutes ago

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

[-] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 8 points 4 hours 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 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz 20 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] brown_guy@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours 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 25 points 10 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.

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 56 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 74 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 58 points 14 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 9 points 11 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.

[-] goatinspace@feddit.org 40 points 14 hours ago

I don't use Ubuntu, by the way.

[-] SnotFlickerman 27 points 13 hours ago

I use Ubuntu just to trigger people.

[-] sanderium@lemmy.zip 12 points 13 hours ago

I use Arch to trigger elitists

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 7 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Most colleges are outside of Boston, classmate!

[-] 17lifers@sopuli.xyz 25 points 13 hours ago

noo not miku miku beam >.<

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 points 13 hours ago
[-] Hubi@feddit.org 15 points 13 hours ago

All the words that start with n are banned

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago

Noooooooo!!!!

Oh, sorry....

Ooooooooooo!!!!!!

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 13 hours ago
[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago

I use stretch-ed Debian btw

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

I like how foul language etc is halfway down the list

[-] sanderium@lemmy.zip 11 points 13 hours ago

What is your favorite distro and why is it Arch?

[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 14 points 12 hours ago
[-] jawa22 5 points 11 hours ago

Honestly 2 amazing reasons.

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 13 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 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 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 7 points 12 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.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 12 hours ago
[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 13 hours ago

it says n words they're allowed to have one

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