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Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon
DynaSoar writes "Lake Superior State University in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ('The land of four seasons: June, July, August and Winter') has just published its 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. Besides such unsurprising inclusions such as 'green' corporations being 'game changing' due to concern with their 'carbon foot print,' this year's list contains an emoticon for the first time — not a smiley face or variant, but the 'heart' symbol made from the characters 'less than' and 'three.' It's perhaps a sign of the evolution of language, or at least of this volunteer linguistic watchdog group, that a symbol compounded of two characters, neither of them a letter, is considered not only a word, but a particularly egregious one."
Let's celebrate.
\o/
<3 is supposed to be a heart!? And all this time
I thought it was mammaries or butt-cheeks, depending
on the context.
The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...
Or maybe ban the losers who constantly spell lose as loose.
It's gotten to the point that I involuntarily flinch every time I see the word 'looser', even in the correct context.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
What's that one bash.org quote?
a: I love her with all my 3
b: You love her with all your less than three? Inches?
And all along I thought it <3 stood for Boobs on a cone.
I <3 monkeys and have set up a green organization so to achieve our directive and maintain a low carbon footprint, along with my wife to protect them. My wife is a bit of a Maverick and is trying to run for president but I am ok with being First Dude.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Me: LSSU! <3 :( :D
LSSU: </3
Me:
LSSU: ( ^_^ )
LSSU: <(^_^<)
LSSU: (>^_^)>
LSSU: (o^_^)O
LSSU: O(^_^o)
Me:
LSSU: (>O<)
Me: D:
Well at least they didn't ban four or two, without those, we wouldn't have the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
That's one big smiley face!
You never expect irony, do you?
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(_)_)/////////////////////D OMG I got Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. I cant use fewer characters, then it wouldnt be to scale...
For some time now I've been using >=3 as an emoticon for "hate". Rarely do people seem to get it, though.
just a really long nose.
Well, all right...
zomg wtf why is this not in idle why did it appear on my home screen i wasted my precious time reading it ill never get that time back slashdot has gone downhill this isnt news for nerds why am i reading it i hate it why cant we just stick to news on my personal minutiae thats what news for nerds should be all about not this humor crap i traded my emotions for efficiency for a reason you insensitive clods stop that laughing one of these days youre going to wind up dead just like your idiot hyena cousins
There. That should do it. Happy to help!
=O=
Or maybe ban the losers who constantly spell lose as loose.
It's gotten to the point that I involuntarily flinch every time I see the word 'looser', even in the correct context.
I will become rich and famous when I invent a way to make loosers flinch over the internet.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
one of them is filtered as insightful +5
You speak London? I speak London very best.
That's one big smiley face!
... or are you just glad to see me?
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
Hah-ha! You've fallen into GP's trap -- he's redefined "old" to mean "early modern." Because languages change over time, and early modern definitions are forced to give way to frobble glorkle prabulax.
$META_SIG_JOKE
just a really long nose.
You've got to be lying.
Count in base 3 (0, 1, 2). You could never tell anyone what counting system you were using but that just makes working out what you're saying that much more fun!
That site may say it's ok, but logically, it makes no sense.
That might be the case, but people still use it, irregardless.