Spyke
sh.itjust.works

I was doubting if I'm too old to get the reference, or if it's a legit complaint from the kids.

Also, what's wrong with "chat"?

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TurboMars3reply
lemmy.world

Some kids talk to an imaginary stream chat like a streamer would.

Ex.- "Chat, is this real?" Or "Can you believe this, chat?"

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Probably phrased something like how a streamer might speak, “chat, are we ____?” which I could imagine getting old 2.5 milliseconds after the class starts saying it on repeat.

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sh.itjust.works

Alpha Beta

Well, I guess now we're not learning about statistics, protein folding, or radioactive decay. I hope you're all happy with yourselves.

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Revan343reply
lemmy.ca

or radioactive decay

Gamma and neutron emission are still allowed

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Tweaking once was chemsex when it wasn't experimenting with the fine-tuning of your amateur radio array.

Now its erratic behavior like someone on stimulants trying to fine tune their radio array to pick up alien chatter.

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lemmy.ml

Tweaking has been plain meth use for a loooooooooong time, not sure what the kids mean by it now

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Acting in a manner reminiscent of being on meth. Spastic (from which we get spaz )

Now I think about it, young people are often high energy because (as I put it) the motor is too big for the chassis hence the need to run around on the jungle gym. So having new recurring slang for someone who is too energetic to be fully in control (i.e. well-behaved) makes sense.

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"I do not tolerate cowardice"

NGL if I was a teacher, I might quote that if nobody raised their hand

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As a weeb, that teacher would have skinned me alive and wore my face.

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Note the conspicuous lack of traditional swear words on this list.

If I were a kid in this class, I would've abused the hell out of that loophole. (And suffered the consequences, but finding and exploiting the technical ways to skirt a teacher's stupid rules was always worth it.)

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Some of these are valid to ban (the sex and manosphere ones) but others just seem like they're trying to ban slang.

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pancakesreply
sh.itjust.works

Also why ban ligma? What if someone catches it and needs to talk about it.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Ban using slang in writing makes sense, but controlling how students can speak is just ridiculous.

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I agree. Thinking more about it, if you look at the board it shows hand written, a typo count. Which may indicate it is a typing class. Thereby they would be possibly teaching professional typing for a work environment.

So telling users not to talk about pop culture, use slang, emojis, and memes would make sense in that environment.

I personally prefer to use some, but knowing how not to and "knowing your audience" would depict when it is or is not appropriate. So teaching students to say type a professional email/cover letter/resume/response would make sense to ban such. 🤷 <Devils advocate I suppose. Sorry, been a rough week

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how does it make sense to ban slang in language/literature class???
that's like banning research papers in physics class, wtf

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lemmy.world

As a Gen-X’er I read this and started wondering what “Gyatt” means…. As an (ex-)redditor I know not to ask.

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aussie.zone

It's what the kids are using in place of "God damn" when referring to something impressive.

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lemmy.world

I work with kids, it essentially means ass but has a sexualized context to it. Most kids approaching high school realize this and don't use it as frequently around me, but younger kids seem to think it just means butt. Again this is just my experience and it could vary from place to place

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Yes, my kids and their friends (10-13 yo) say it all the time and it's pretty uncomfortable. They also say hawk tuah to just mean spit which is much more uncomfortable.

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I too wish to know.

I hope it's like kids mimicking Darius from league of legends, but I doubt that. Like irl emote spam, lol.

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lemdro.id

I would like this in my school except 10 and 20 .But what the fuck is darius noises.

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To people complaining about never getting Half Life 3...

You get skibidi toilet, okay? That's how the story ends.

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which is unsurprising since it's a thing scatman john (if you don't know him go educate yourself) said

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lemm.ee

did they misspell feign, or is that some new meme word?

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feddit.nl

That’s clearly not geography class. Or else the student wouldn’t be able to answer in what state is Cincinnati?

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There is no risk of that, because no one cares about ohio or Cincinnati. It is the most vanilla of room temperature things this world has on offer

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They all come from that incel grifter nonsense. You can also throw "femnoids" and that junk in there, but the alpha, beta, and sigma stuff are more mainstream.

They originally come from that nonsense about wolves forming into packs where the alpha males get the girls and the beta males get cucked, but then they had to create a new, better category of males to keep the grift going, so the "Sigma male" became a thing. And then that spawned the "sigma grindset" idea of working yourself to death because that's how you get rich and sexy, and so on.

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Onionguyreply
lemm.ee

What, if I may ask, is this "Ligma" my good Sir? I never heard of such a thing. Would you be so kind as to elaborate the meaning of this Ligma lexeme to me? The sheer uncertainty is simply unbearable.

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Oh the shame! I feel hoodwinkled, led astray, bamboozled, flat out deceived! Damn you good Sir, you hear me?! DAMN YOU, you sly, conniving conman!

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lemmy.radio

The mind boggles...

Where is this sign, and why is "fuck" not on it (among other words that come to mind)?

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Well, there's no mames, that's kinda close. No me mames is like "don't fuck with me".

I don't know what the gen alpha meme is, but I don't think it's polite 😂

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Probably because they are school wide bans and the teacher would probably get in trouble for having it on a sign in her class

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