US University bans use of the word "pwn" [Archive]

Leonon

01-01-2007, 07:13 AM

Forget about pwn right now, what about those words? How do they ban the word "awesome"?It's not banned in conversation, just in papers turned into the school. At least, that's how it sounded to me.

dudeness

01-01-2007, 07:50 AM

they banned truthiness!?! those blasphemous pigs!

Tessien

01-01-2007, 10:25 AM

Burn them!

Killuminati

01-01-2007, 07:21 PM

wtf is the point of all this..

Helgeran

01-01-2007, 07:23 PM

We're pregnant.

What the hell? How do you possibly overuse that phrase?

Killuminati

01-01-2007, 07:30 PM

We're pregnant.

What the hell? How do you possibly overuse that phrase?

prostitutes?

Aragoni

01-01-2007, 07:37 PM

Healthy food

WTF?!

rKos

01-01-2007, 07:45 PM

What the hell is the point of that, how do you ban the word "search"?

Teth

01-01-2007, 07:47 PM

"Truthiness" isn't a word by any stretch of the imagination, so that's fine.

"Awesome", though? wtf? That has perfectly legitimate applications outside of its slangly colloquialism. I guess they're expecting people to instead waste time and write "awe-inspiring" instead...tscheh.

Don't even get me started on stuff like "search" or "chipotle". Lousy bunch of archaic fuckwits; they give everybody who cherishes the English language a bad name.

Aramoro

01-01-2007, 07:51 PM

That's some messed up shit...

alfaroverall

01-01-2007, 07:52 PM

We're pregnant.

What the hell? How do you possibly overuse that phrase?
A couple can never accurately say "we're pregnant" because the guy is never pregnant (unless an extraterrestrial is involved.) And yet people continue to say it in that way. It's misuse, not overuse.
The rest of the list is pretty much WTF?!

Delwyn

01-01-2007, 08:18 PM

What the hell is wrong with you people? Banning words? WTF! Seriously.

dudeness

01-01-2007, 08:46 PM

"Truthiness" isn't a word by any stretch of the imagination, so that's fine.
It was voted word of the year so it must be

Tekerton

01-01-2007, 08:55 PM

Anyone who would ban Chipotle should be banned from banning by an awesomely lengthy banning in order to reflect upon the Search of Truthiness. After all, banning is better than sitting in a jail cell in Gitmo with Tomkat only to find that your drug deal gone bad has gone missing as well, and no matter how much you Ask your Doctor, he just boasts about how he can write you an i-scription to fix that little i-problem that's been i-pwning you. Just be careful as you might end up running down the street screaming "WE'RE -PREGNANT" after some really screwed up encounter with an undocumented alien TJ doctor who is always hocking health food late at night after the infomericals. But don't take my word for all this; you can watch the new Micheal Moore Documentary titled "STFU OR I'll PWN YOU BRANGELINA", now playing in Theaters no where near joo.

Gloomrender

01-01-2007, 09:03 PM

WTF?!

Indeed, wtf. Maybe It's to match the lack of it in our society.

alfaroverall

01-01-2007, 09:04 PM

Anyone who would ban Chipotle should be banned from banning by an awesomely lengthy banning in order to reflect upon the Search of Truthiness. After all, banning is better than sitting in a jail cell in Gitmo with Tomkat only to find that your drug deal gone bad has gone missing as well, and no matter how much you Ask your Doctor, he just boasts about how he can write you an i-scription to fix that little i-problem that's been i-pwning you. Just be careful as you might end up running downthe street screaming "WE'RE -PREGNANT" after some really screwed up encounter with an undocumented alien TJ doctor who is always hocking health food late at night after the infomericals. But don't take my word for all this; you can watch the new Micheal Moore Documentary titled "STFU OR I'll PWN YOU BRANGELINA", now playing in Theaters no where near joo.
If only you went to that university...

Helgeran

01-01-2007, 09:08 PM

A couple can never accurately say "we're pregnant" because the guy is never pregnant (unless an extraterrestrial is involved.) And yet people continue to say it in that way. It's misuse, not overuse.
The rest of the list is pretty much WTF?!

Oh, I though people used it like a metaphor for something in too great quantity. Ex: We're pregnant with fear in todays society.

stalwart

01-01-2007, 09:20 PM

that's absurd. i want to hit the president of that university in the face. banning the use of any words is fucking retarded.

Helgeran

01-01-2007, 09:27 PM

We're pregnant is pretty retarded too.

rKos

01-01-2007, 09:45 PM

What if its a lesbian couple? Or just two women with no relationship just saying that they are both pregnant?

Helgeran

01-01-2007, 09:48 PM

Don't make this harder than it is.

alfaroverall

01-01-2007, 09:50 PM

What if its a lesbian couple? Or just two women with no relationship just saying that they are both pregnant?
Yes, but the general usage of the term is in fact a man and a woman who are a couple and say "we're pregnant." Banning the phrase entirely is retarded nevertheless, as such circumstances as the latter DO arise. The former...if you're saying both women would be pregnant, I strongly doubt that one.

Delwyn

01-02-2007, 12:55 AM

What if you meet two pregant women and ask why they have big bellies?

Helgeran

01-02-2007, 01:15 AM

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b211/Plumbumdeath/20060529.gif

Baenor

07-09-2008, 10:54 AM

I wouldn't doubt that a student will find legitimate uses for as many of those banned terms as possible, just to spite the university.

MandorRook

07-09-2008, 11:07 AM

Expecting students to be able to actually communicate in the language being taught?!?!? WTF? They should be able to completely make up words and turn in a paper comprised of gibberish so the teacher has no fucking clue what they are trying to say. l33t sp34k should be given extra points when used in term papers and should be an accepted format for all thesis papers.

By the way, that was all sarcasm. Students that use internet shortcuts, slang or intentionally mispelled words on school work should be stripped naked and set a drift on an ice flow.

Lethn

07-09-2008, 11:25 AM

Teachers are just jealous because the students have more imagination, creativity and lives than them.

Daccus

07-09-2008, 11:28 AM

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/discuss/?page_id=2

The tongue-in-cheek Banishment List began as a publicity ploy for little-known LSSU.

It's not serious, it's all a tradition for LSSU to "ban" words from our language. People submit all kinds of words they think shouldn't be used and they make a list every New Years.

Teth

07-09-2008, 11:40 AM

I wouldn't doubt that a student will find legitimate uses for as many of those banned terms as possible, just to spite the university.
Die screaming on a crucifix, necrophile.

Baenor

07-09-2008, 12:37 PM

Die screaming on a crucifix, necrophile.

Not entirely sure how you jumped to that conclusion...

Helgeran

07-09-2008, 12:55 PM

I bet they were trying to stop kids from bringing guns and trying to pwn their classmates.

Nexus

07-09-2008, 12:59 PM

I can't see a link, is it this one by any chance? http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

Pwn wasn't on there, so its probably not and i'm way off.

Anyway, I think their ideas are good but methods are wrong.

"Ok, everyone? Don't use THESE WORDS. We have to get everyone in on thi-oi you, put down those Oreo's, they're for afters, ok, now, Don't say any of these ever, because everyone says them and that makes them uncool."

It'll never work like this. That one on random, yes thats true it is a widespread used term but boffins from a university telling it to go away won't make it actually go away. It'll go away of its own accord and then people will remember the day that LSSU changed the world.

Some of those on that list aren't bad at all anyway!

Back in the day is fine, and if used correctly is widely amusing.
X is the new Y is usually only used by gays closet or not, so its good to help you know who your friends are.

IcePillow

07-09-2008, 01:06 PM

133333337!

losinglife

07-09-2008, 01:43 PM

forumfall has a rash of shitty threads today

Fledrel

07-09-2008, 02:41 PM

forumfall has a rash of shitty threads today

agreed

~OP~
Next there will be paper burnings of the students who refuse to go along with the ban. then they will move up to Books.
Before long they will just start burning the students who use the words in public.

Its the begining of the end!

edit: got any marshmellows?

jonyak

07-09-2008, 02:49 PM

I am all for bans on stupid internet speak.

katahlyn

07-09-2008, 03:06 PM

Not entirely sure how you jumped to that conclusion...

You necroed the thread, didn't you?

BeSt

07-09-2008, 03:26 PM

Too bad this doesn't work in forumfall :/

jonyak

07-09-2008, 03:29 PM

my favorite thing is when someone claims to have "pwned" you in a thread.

IMO as soon as someone uses that term its a self Pwnage. The lose right there.

Baenor

07-09-2008, 03:30 PM

You necroed the thread, didn't you?

Well, that is odd. I'm not entirely sure how I came to be reading such an old thread...

Here I was thinking he was using a word for its actual definition.