• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    My mom works in a school with 1st through 5th graders. She messages me like twice a week for me to explain slang to her so she can know if she needs to explain to a child that it’s wrong to say. I’ve learned so much new slang.

      • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        I think any teacher worth their salt can teach English and draw the parallels between modern vernacular. I would like to believe teachers can do both.

        I’d even go so far as to call teachers who refuse to adapt to the change in “slang” lazy.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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          30 days ago

          It’s not about adapting to change. It’s just as valid to tell a kid they can’t use “good” and “bad” in whatever they’re writing or discussing. The adaptation is understanding that those slang words essentially amount to the same things because that’s how kid’s slang works. You’re not conveying any rich meaning by repeating sigma over and over for whatever you think is good and mid for bad.

          On that list the only complex idea is mewing, but the fact that it’s complex means the kids who didn’t understand it’s complexity have stripped it out. That’s because it’s not, in of itself, an actual slang term.

          • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
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            30 days ago

            I disagree, I think the slang does convey rich meaning to the correct informal audience.

            I would like to believe the slang is important code for another demographic that people can switch to.

            As crazy as it may sound, I think depriving or deminishing the slang creates a divide culturally.

    • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      I wish y’all would be less cowardly and just say the n word

      We’d honestly respect you more if you had a spine. Granted, we’d also finally be able to ban you, so… I guess you just know your audience. sigh

      • jjagaimo@lemmy.ca
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        30 days ago

        I think he was implying that the same people who would want a list like this banning words like these would support enforcing the use of the above terms

        • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
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          30 days ago

          Gotcha. I think I can see that now. But it was a bit of a stretch for me. lol

          Normally the people that use “DEI hire” or “woke” are making “fun” of people that use those terms and using it ironically or incorrectly but I guess I can see how ppl can think those terms have been accepted as positive to say on the right and negative on the left (tho I dont fully agree, I still use woke like I did 5 or so yrs ago even if it confuses some ppl)

          Glad I held back on all the other stuff I wanted to say 😅 I definitely need to work on asking people what they mean first. It’s crazy how I didn’t think there was any other way of looking at this one. lol

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      I think you underestimate the increase in the difficulty of teachers jobs in the last 5 years. They’ve lost a lot of their ability to even teach due to internet parenting and brain rot.

  • sevan@lemmy.ca
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    30 days ago

    Apparently these rules exist in my house also. Just today, my Gen Z kid forbade me from ever saying rizz or Ohio again. Luckily, I don’t live near Ohio, so I don’t need these words for any functional purpose. In particular, she told me that Ohio has been over for, like, a year and I’m out of date on slang.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      What I always love about it is that it’s only outv of date in her age group social circles and it was out of date when she was using it too.

  • aulin@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    The one they should really ban is “No but x”. It makes no sense to start a sentence like that.