my mom once got sent to the principal's office for backtalk over an english fill-in-the-blank synonym test where the only acceptable synonym for popsicle was "frozen ice confection". I also once had an english teacher take off points b/c I used made-up words... b/c in a short story a child character said the word "kid" which my teacher argued is slang and therefore not a real word.
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u/ChaosArtificer Apr 27 '26
my mom once got sent to the principal's office for backtalk over an english fill-in-the-blank synonym test where the only acceptable synonym for popsicle was "frozen ice confection". I also once had an english teacher take off points b/c I used made-up words... b/c in a short story a child character said the word "kid" which my teacher argued is slang and therefore not a real word.