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    Banned words (sopuli.xyz)
    submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by Gork@sopuli.xyz to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
     
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    [–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 7 points 1 hour ago

    I shall say 'Ni!' again

    Chicken jockey
    Deez nutz

    [–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 1 points 9 minutes ago

    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.

    [–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 hour ago

    Mikuru beam desu.

    [–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 55 minutes ago
    [–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago

    I manhandle Manjaro.

    [–] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    I don't not use Arch, by the way

    [–] nodiratime@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

    Stattdessen nutze ich Bogen.

    [–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 52 points 12 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 27 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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

    [–] wieson@feddit.org 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Me utilises masonry bow, coincidentally

    [–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 4 hours ago

    Why use many word when few word do trick.

    [–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    They really hate "Miku" so they added it twice

    [–] Zabjam@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago

    Wait until you hear about "tung"

    [–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 5 hours ago

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

    [–] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 43 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

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

    [–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago
    [–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

    [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] 8osm3rka@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

    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 hours ago

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

    [–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    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 5 hours ago

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

    [–] Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz 24 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] brown_guy@lemm.ee 1 points 5 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 28 points 13 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 7 points 10 hours ago

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

    [–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 59 points 15 hours ago

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

    [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 80 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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

    [–] cm0002@lemmy.world 62 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    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 13 hours ago (1 children)

    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 1 points 21 minutes ago

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

    [–] goatinspace@feddit.org 41 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

    I don't use Ubuntu, by the way.

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    I use Ubuntu just to trigger people.

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    [–] 17lifers@sopuli.xyz 27 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    noo not miku miku beam >.<

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    [–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] Hubi@feddit.org 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    All the words that start with n are banned

    [–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago

    Noooooooo!!!!

    Oh, sorry....

    Ooooooooooo!!!!!!

    [–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 15 hours ago (3 children)
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    [–] 9point6@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

    I like how foul language etc is halfway down the list

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    "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 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

    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 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

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