• Snowclone@lemmy.world
    95·
    20 hours ago

    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.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      9·
      12 hours ago

      This

      Making lists like that is authoritarian and won’t work. Making the words worthless works

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
      18·
      19 hours ago

      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 It becomes your permanent lexicon after a while and you keep using the words no matter how outdated they are.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.

      • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
        9·
        16 hours ago

        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

        • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
          1·
          12 hours ago

          I have been saying “groovy” for as long as I have been aware that the word existed, and that’s early 70s

        • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
          1·
          14 hours ago

          I say hella every day. Slang accentuates speech and makes it fun, so I use a lot of it. Not an obnoxious amount, though. Gotta get the slang amount just right, just like swearing. It’s an art.

          I don’t use skibidi because it’s too long to easily work into sentences casually. Also it’s a really fucking dumb word that feels wrong saying. Like I tried it a few times and cringed so hard I thought I was gonna flip inside out or some shit. My soul started leaving my body.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      72·
      16 hours ago

      it’s AAVE, not made up, and there’s literally no reason why “gonna” should be more legit. it’s the exact same construction.

      • AugustWest@lemmy.world
        54·
        15 hours ago

        “Going to” is far superior to “fixing to,” so I don’t know what you are talking about.

        • Scranulum@feddit.nu
          71·
          13 hours ago

          They don’t really mean the exact same thing, or at least not in my dialect. “Fixing to” implies that the thing will happen imminently, not just in the future.

          • AugustWest@lemmy.world
            21·
            11 hours ago

            Fair enough. I do think that connotation doesn’t necessarily carry over to the “gonna” and “finna” forms, but it’s a good point.

            That said, “fixing to” still grates on my brain in ways I can’t begin to describe.

          • AugustWest@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 hours ago

            That’s a fair question. My most honest answer isn’t a very good one: I can’t stand it.

            Linguistically, I don’t get it. “Fixing to” doesn’t seem to offer any benefit over “about to” or “going to” and as far as I can tell it doesn’t have any logical meaning at all.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    172·
    21 hours ago

    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

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
      2·
      12 hours ago

      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.

  • Lightfire228@pawb.social
    11·
    22 hours ago

    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)

  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de
    284·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      38·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        1 day ago

        Yeah making a list like this deserves doubling down on that kind of slang.

        • BossDj@lemm.ee
          5·
          21 hours ago

          I’m betting (hoping?) this was done with a bit of tongue in cheek, especially since there’s a nice, close up picture of the list and it uses up significant board real estate.

          Humbling kids with some self awareness is great, especially in middle school. Self reflection and metacognition (why do we do what we do?) are super important tools for kids and leads to more empathy and better conflict resolution.

          If this is just a teacher being a crotchety conservative, then yeah, you’re right. But I’m willing to bet the kids even helped make the list and had a good time doing it.

      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        19 hours ago

        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.”

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      My guess is they are used sarcastically/ironically and whoever made the board is sick of hearing them.

  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    19 hours ago

    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”.