• Etterra@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    3 months ago

    Well I mean everybody knows that there’s no such thing as Ohio. Kind of like the Netherlands or New Zealand. Totally fictitious.

      • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        3 months 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
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          edit-2
          3 months 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
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            3 months 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.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months 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.

  • aulin@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    3 months ago

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

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    3 months ago

    This seems like a joke from some Michigan school teacher … similar to how a lot of Ohio State football fans say *ichigan and things

          • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            edit-2
            3 months ago

            Except it’s not… Ohio has Cedar Point, Kings Island, several well recognized museums, lakes, large state parks and a national park, hiking trails, bike trails, kayaking, just as diverse of a food culture as any other state in the big cities, 3 large metro areas, stadiums, concert halls, etc

            The worst thing about Ohio for years has been the Republicans in the state house and this craziness that it’s somehow a boring state. If you can’t find things to do in Ohio, you haven’t tried.

            • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              3 months ago

              Really? “All that and a bag of chips” followed by snapping your fingers 3 times in the shape of a Z seems like something a sane person would say?

              or “bout it bout it rowdy rowdy”?

              or “salty” or “scrubs” when not refering to sodium or doctors medical attire.

              Our slang, just like every generations slang, was the worst.

              • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                edit-2
                3 months ago

                All that and a bag of chips

                I remember that being said … a handful of times

                followed by snapping your fingers 3 times in the shape of a Z seems like something a sane person would say?

                and I barely remember that… certainly I don’t remember it tied to the former.

                or “bout it bout it rowdy rowdy”?

                0 recollection of that

                or “salty” or “scrubs” when not refering to sodium or doctors medical attire.

                Fair – I do remember both of those.

                Our slang, just like every generations slang, was the worst.

                I was informed by a friend I’m actually thinking of gen alpha slang (and blaming Gen Z) with stuff like … https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skibidi Toilet

                I guess it’s just a matter of what’s “normal” with folks around you, particular as a kid. I certainly wasn’t in a slang heavy group of kids in general. We texted with (near) proper grammar and full sentences and also found the “r u k? bb” kind of stuff pretty cringe-worthy.

  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    3 months 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.