Spyke
ickplantreply
lemmy.world

Damn, you are probably right. Maybe this generation isn’t so doomed after all.

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slrpnk.net

Much to do is always made of the kids personally I'm undecided. I have a feeling that they might go hard left after the formative experiences are Christmas being ruined by the right winger in the White House

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lemm.ee

At the moment all the young people entering politics had their formative experiences be the Biden administration and the men at least are very right wing

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Percentage of young men is increasingly right wing, unfortunately. Economy/costs is usually not the driver for the young, it's community, perceptions of confidence and strength, and attitude towards sex (once old enough, but much younger now than it used to be [in the US]).

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discuss.online

Roflcopter, what an epic fail! The speech patterns of other generations are so not tubular or radical! Unlike my generation holds up spork we're too random to to be lame!

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slrpnk.net

Some of this was Gen Z slang. Like ROFLcopter. Early Gen Z was part of the stuff like Gay Luigi, the troll song, nyan cat, yeeee, rick rolling, swag, 360 no scope mlg, etc

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It was definitely created by millenials, but that doesnt mean it wasn't used by gen z. Generations aren't as clear cut as people like to pretend

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feddit.nl

I think you mean to say:

"Chat, is this generation COOKED?"

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lemmy.world

How often was Emma saying Tweaking to get her own place on the board?

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lemmy.world

I would upvote because added context but you're promoting TikTok so I won't.

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Yeah… Exposing your autistic sons „strangeness“ to the internet sure seems healthy for that kid…

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lemmy.zip

There’s worse, like x links

At least you can view the videos on browser, a bit

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lemmy.world

I don't think there is worse than a militarized platform being used as the world's largest data collection scheme by a hostile militaristic dictatorship. I think that's a super high bar to clear.

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lemm.ee

Story time! When I was in high school (~1998/99) a group of kids decided to start a “gang.” I went to a small Baptist school. Kids were bored. This was maybe second period. They called their gang the “Yo’s.” Saying “Yo” was pretty much the extent of their gang. By lunchtime a group of us got annoyed and decided to start a rival gang called the “No’s.” The Bloods to the Yo’s Crips. The sign you were a No was you grabbed a brown paper towel from the bathroom and wore it hanging from your back pocket.

Anyway, just before dismissal everyone was called into an assembly and given a lecture on gangs and told that anyone wearing a brown paper towel would receive a detention. I am still amused at how seriously our administration took this obviously stupid and juvenile joke.

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Wait until you learn how seriously law enforcement took street gangs.

The whole Saints Row series was based on the dichotomy between incorrigible feral teens, a product of hands-off parenting while simultaneously running an international drug and crime syndicate

Of note is the property of ur-fascism the enemy [of the movement] is simultaneously strong and weak

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Jteereply
lemmy.world

We weren't allowed to wear hats because that meant you were in a gang...

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In public highschool in the '90s in rural Ohio. A bunch dressed in western/cowboy gear and brought guns to a football game and there was some other 'gang' as well (maybe same fashion but different belief? I don't remember). One person got found with a gun and arrested, but nothing else came of it. Yeehaw, I suppose.

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Ohio being on the list is pretty funny (assuming this is in the US). Going to make geography and history classes awkward.

What grade is this, that Edging and Goon were common enough terms that they had to be included here?

"Animal noises" is very broad. Furry persecution. :(

The fact that they lose "LiveSchool points", whatever those are, presumably for saying these words, is almost worse than the fact that they have this list at all. I don't know what that system is or how it works, but I already hate it.

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It's probably some fast she discipline system. The way we treat kids in schools is horrific, has been for quite a while though but they feel entitled to subject kids to whatever technological Horrors they can come up with

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lemmy.world

As always, the best way to get kids to stop using these words is to use them yourself. Use the ancient cringe-power to disarm the youth 🦹🔥

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sh.itjust.works

As a teacher, I cannot tell you how much this changed my life. I just spew their random shit right at them, totally straight-faced, with a painful degree of enunciation. They do not say those words again in my presence. Their cringe feeds me. I also find it helpful to try to get them to define each term, in excruciating detail, then I destroy the word for them.

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Goldholzreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

And best way to make them stop being used, is using them completely wrong and with the "i am hip with the teens" attitude

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rbamgnxl5reply
lemm.ee

This works so very well. Turn them from fun to cringe with one irritating parent move.

I threatened to get a Sigma Dad tshirt and wear it to my son's school. He's since stopped with all the sigma stuff.

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This reminds me of how John Oliver kept finding a way to work "on fleek" into his segments until it was declared no longer cool.

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I do this as well. Killed "bruh" in a weekend. The t-shirt idea is next level, though. Kudos.

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It's a slippery slope between saying something ironically and having it become part of your lexicon.

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If you're 30+ it's your duty to destroy their words, just like the older generation did to our words, we will in turn kill these words untill only the true cool words remain, that is the way the universe purges itself of cringe.

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I get the sense that this list is constantly growing and acts as an incentive to invent new words that end up on the list.

By that measure, Emma is a rockstar and Darius is being bullied by their classmates and the teacher.

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lemm.ee

Chat, we are so cooked. Diddy hit me with stage 5 LIGMA in Ohio.🥀 I tried to tell the huzz, but I had massive beta energy 🪫🥶 and just stood there like goofy ahh broke boy NPC.🧍No mames! 😫

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lemm.ee

Fein comes from the Travis Scott song FE!N. While it is a synonym of "addict", Travis uses it more as a musical refrain. The repeated and somewhat goofy intonation of the repeated phrase is what lead to the memification of this slang word. When using "fein", it can be used like any other nonsensical filler word.

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infosec.pub

There was a shirt, it was Mario + Mushroom = Big Mario. Our administration thought this was a drug reference. Some nerdy kid would wear the shirt and about half way through the day they would be wearing it inside out.

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Literally a 40 year old reference, seniors still in working age was in their 20s when this game was released

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Idk... seems like a drug reference, lol. The kid just isn't cool enough to get it.

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As an elder gen Z I can assure you that the list of banned things in my class circa 2015 was somehow worse. Just off the top of my head.

SpongeBob laugh

WW2 Propaganda (Just cause it's historical doesn't make it not pornography vaultdweller013)

Any discussion of the killdozer

Bulldozer noises

Tank noises (You will all make annoying lawyers)

Kazoos are not longer allowed

Compressed air canisters are banned especially if you have a whistle and duck tape

Arma is not allowed to be watched on computer property

Soviet national anthem

Russian national anthem

State anthem of Mississippi

Djibouti National anthem

Sakkinarven Polka

Those are just the ones I remember, I am the direct source of at least half of them.

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Hoboreply
lemmy.world

They changed the state anthem of Mississippi a couple of years ago from Go Mississippi to One Mississippi. It's no longer contextually hilarious and not nearly as hoki. I guess Mississippi decided they were not on the right track and probably were never going to get to the top.

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sh.itjust.works

Shame the old one is pretty unique, frankly if anyone needs an update it's us Californians. But we are also a somewhat lazy bunch and would probably just make California Dreamin the new anthem. Either that or the committee would let their insanity take hold and ya would end up with something reminiscing a Latin war cant.

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I'm stuck with Pennsylvania Polka because of Groundhog Day.

And now everyone who's watched it is stuck with it too.

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This is basically a shit post song, I guess people are still somewhat the same.

Also my association for polka is Polka never dies by The Dreadnaughts.

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I will proceed to check out the national anthem of Djibouti and the state anthem of Mississippi. I might be back with some questions.

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lemmy.world

When I was in the 1st grade, I successfully got sent to the Principal for saying “Cookie Crisp” too many times.

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Was using Ligma in the 80's, glad to see it still in circulation.

Ligma balls / Ligma sweaty balls / Ligma sweaty (sports clothing you happen to be holding) e.g. Ligma sweaty socks

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lemmy.world

This generation really is doomed - but not because of these words (or anything else it does, really)

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The way I look at it, generation α and the next 5 generations are in a game of no-respin Russian roulette for who gets to be the ones to fight World War IV with sticks and stones.

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lemmy.zip

Sorry but "any combination of 'tuah' and 'hawk'" has me fucking rolling. Since every now and then my mom and I will do that exact thing spontaneously while talking.

Like she'll be talking about Cactuar and my brain will be like "Cactuah"

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They didn't say anything about it being the last monster their mom fantasizes about

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My mom is the one who got me into gaming, especially my love for JRPGs as she has played FFVI through FFXIII. She has told me several times how much she hates Cactuar because of the thousand needle attack or whatever.

Unfortunately the backlog of games is so high that I haven't played a FF game besides 15 (which was ass lol). But I do wanna play the FFVII and FFX remakes real bad. I think her favorite is one of those two, don't remember which.

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I had a music teacher in the 90s once have a breakdown and scream, "I don't want to hear shit, fuck, or blowjob one more time" and then run out of the room. The kids are okay.

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lemm.ee

There was no list of banned words in my schools. Common sense was enough. Kids do understand common sense.

Anime words? Like all words ever spoken in animation?

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They took away our pogs, so then we started playing card games like speed or war. Then they banned card games saying we were "gambling" even though we weren't.

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fedia.io

If that list was made in my generation it wouldn't be in English.

But also it wouldn't be made in my generation because what the hell do you mean "banned words"? We would have set that trash on fire and gone on strike.

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Hah. Not necessarily, but student strikes were absolutely a thing where I'm from.

Was it mostly a convenient excuse to take a day off? Yes. Was it great civics training? It was a convenient excuse to take a day off.

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feddit.uk

Edging

How old are these kids, I was assuming pre teen

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Anything that gets a rise out of your parents is going to be repeated on a loop whether or not you understand the context.

I remember saying "Pimp" in front of a friend's parent. She chewed me out over it, while my friend's younger sister listened in. She then proceeded to say "Pimp! Pimp! Pimp!" all the way home.

I was not invited back to that house for a month, which I think is a bit unfair.

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... I mean, a lot of these words are pretty tame aren't they?

Chat? Rizz? Anime words and gestures? No pumpkin?

Seems like a desperate attempt here.

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lemmy.world

No mames hahahaha

Google translate says it means "don't fuck with me"

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slrpnk.net

Yeah that's not even current slang is it? My 50 year old coworkers were saying no mamas 10 years ago.

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Lemminaryreply
lemmy.world

I say it every day! Lol

"No mames, güey. Qué pedo, viste??"

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Yes lol The proper translation is, "No way, dude. What the hell, did you see that?"

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In the Minecraft. Straight up jockeyng it. And by 'it' haha well, lets just say. My chicken

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Juvenoia. IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːvənɔɪə/

Noun, juvenoia (uncountable)

(neologism) The fear or hostility directed by an older generation toward a younger one, or toward youth culture in general.

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aussie.zone

I think I get maybe half of those, but can someone explain why Ohio is on the list?

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ayyyreply
sh.itjust.works

It just means “the shittiest location you can imagine”. Sometimes the most honest words come out of the mouths of children.

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SirSamuelreply
lemmy.world

I understand hating on Ohio. It's mostly flat and pretty much flyover country.

On the other hand, Ohio is a perfectly cromulent place to live. It's an even better place to be from

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Considered a weird place where weird things come. Ex: "MrBeast from Ohio" for the MrBeast imitation video / rap battle… that’s a bit outdated by now though

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I remember all the Mexicans in class saying that any time the teacher made us do something we all didn’t want to do lol

“ORALE NO MAMES WEY”

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lemmy.world

In the 80s they let us say bitchin' in class because ''it's just slang for good''

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fedia.io

We weren't allowed to say something 'sucks' because of the sexual connotations; things were limited to stinking (at least within adult earshot).

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lemm.ee

Ohio is a no no word? But that's the name of a state?

Why is Ohio number three on this banned words list?

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lemm.ee

I know I'm old and I'm not meant to understand most of these, but someone please explain Ohio.

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Thank you. I read as much as I could before remembering I need to get a vasectomy. Eh, we all have our slang at that age, I don't have kids so I don't need to understand it.... which is good because I don't.

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djsoren19reply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

So there's this state in the United States called Ohio, and it's generally one of the worst places to be. If you're "in Ohio" or "feeling Ohio," you're feelin bad.

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lemmy.world

I get like 3 or 4 of those. Some of them I've heard out of context so I have no clue what they mean.

I'm 39.

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Thats it, the last comment i see before closing my eyes for the night.

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TIL: Ohio as slang is quite appropriate for Ohio the state

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Late 90's/early 2000's Aus.
Sick
Mint
Lame/Lamo
Sych/sike
Hella
Rando
Nang/nangkang
Tuppi
Pash
Fail
Wazzup
Brb,lol,a/s/l

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Things I remember people complaining about at various times (I don't really recall gradeschool having any)

  • overuse (or use at all) of dude
  • doy
  • [no] duh
  • dweeb
  • overuse of awesome
  • various "surfer" slang (we all saw the TMNT movie)
  • at some point, maybe around high school, "my bad" became a thing. I still don't really like the phrase much.

I'm sure there are more locked somewhere in the recesses of my brain, but those are the ones that jump to mind. The internet was only really becoming a thing when I was in highschool and I lived in a very rural area for most of it so things spread much more slowly.

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lemmy.world

haha zoomer talk bad, don't care.

What the hell is -1 Live School point? Some sort of social credit nonsense?

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Agent641reply
lemmy.world

The list made me do the Gus Fring smiley face but then the LiveSchool Points reference made me do the Gus Fring serious face. That sounds like some dystopian black mirror gamefied social control indoctrination bullshit that makes me want to say all the words.

Source: Emma

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Any high level math or stats class using alpha, beta, or sigma as math variables: Guess I'll die

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Oh man, this is worse than the time my friends had me order a burger with Fromunda cheese...

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Based on current performance, none of the previous generations are any kind of hot shit so I say we work with what we got.

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lemmy.world

We had a kid who wore a dinosaur onesie, every day, the same one. Genuinely wonder what happened to him sometimes.

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I'm doing alright. When I outgrew it I had it remade into a hat that I occasionally shove into my pants on road trips

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I knew what it was going to be before I clicked the link. Indeed the hoodie.

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Wth is wrong with a fade (low or otherwise)? I'm afraid to know what kind of meme is so horrible when it just sounds like a basic haircut.

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I spent some time looking up the ones that were unfamiliar. Only the cardiac arrest meme I could not find out much over (outside of a TikTok link)

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Cold in here? The class isn't allowed to comment on the temperature? Is the teacher freezing them out?

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bitjunkiereply
lemmy.world

It's how a lot of streamers address their audiences. I didn't realize it was a thing kids were saying out loud.

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Wouldn't it be similar grammtically as saying "God, I hope I'll pass" or something like that?

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It definitely got used a lot by us; but iirc, it's a borrowed slang from an older period we just liked. Like gnarly or tubular. I am pretty sure I've seen it used, in the slang capacity I understand, in a Shaft movie from the 70's.

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lemmy.ca

I don't get why 3, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 22 would be on that list. Some of those arw completely normal words on their own.

Okay Low taper fade probably references something but I don't get it. No names? On what? People just go around saying "no names"? In what context? What does it even mean?

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lemmy.world

It's a context thing.

Ohio = a bad place to be. Honestly, as a non-Ohio Midwesterner, I say this should be allowed.

Chat = like addressing the twitch chat. "Chat, are we doomed?" It's actually pretty interesting from a linguistics perspective because it's arguably a fourth person pronoun. But in-class I can see it getting out of hand.

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barsoapreply
lemm.ee

because it’s arguably a fourth person pronoun.

Even if you consider it a pronoun, which you'd then also have to do with "class" in "Class, please open the book at page 14", it's still second person plural. Arguments against "class" and chat" being a pronoun include that they're nouns, I think that's rather convincing.

Fourth person would be "One does not simply walk into Mordor". "One does not address the fourth person". I guess people got it mixed up with the 4th wall that's why the confusion exists.

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CoolMattreply
lemmy.ca

I get 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person, but 4th person is a new concept to me and I'm trying tl wrap my head around it given your examples. This is intersting

Edit: OOOOHH so it's like 3rd person where you're talking to the second person about another person, BUT instead of that person being a specific person (3rd person) it's more like a "they/them" kind of thing where it's not any specific person but just... Anyone at all?

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One refers to an indefinite and generic group, and it's not a "they/them" in the sense that one does not exclude oneself from that group (it's generic, after all). I guess universal quantification is close in meaning.

It's a thing specific to English, or I guess Indo-European languages in general. All languages have first, second, and third person anything beyond that is non-standard. E.g. Finnish has a 0th person, "Infer who is meant from context".

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I can see both words being annoying the the teacher at most but inappropriate ?

...🤷🏼

If it bothers the teacher THAT MUCH, they picked the wrong profession

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lemm.ee

No names? On what? People just go around saying “no names”?

It says "no mames". I'm not sure what on earth that means, but I suspect it isn't a typo (writeo?)

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No mames guey, spanish loose translation of don't bullshit me bro.

Dont suck it. Dude.

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Omg I totally misread it. Another commenter explained that it's spanish for something like don't BS me

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I feel personally offended that “no mames” is on there. thats racially motivated! /s

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"No mames" is a slang phrase in Spanish which is used to mean "no way" or "you’re kidding me," but with a crude connotation, similar to "no f—ing way" in English.

Google Translate shows it as being more vulgar:

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no mames is Spanish and translates to "no way" or "youre kidding"

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Some of these are bullshit. I can see banning "goon," but cardiac arrest meme? Anime words? Animal noises? Let the kids have fun ffs

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