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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

School district bans the dictionary to comply with Ron DeSantis’s book-ban law

www.lgbtqnation.com

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School district bans the dictionary to comply with Ron DeSantis’s book-ban law

www.lgbtqnation.com

ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Dictionaries contain words that potentially violate the law's broad language...
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    Erdoğan unbanned the letters Q, W and X, which can be used for Kurdish texts, in his 2013 reforms, so I think it’d be a bit too soon to re-ban them now already, so that’s probably not next.

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      I had to look this up, but it is a fact that certain letters were banned. I should not be so amazed. Back in the 1960’s the Greek junta banned the letter Z, because it meant ‘he is alive.’

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(1969_film) the movie is a fictional, but based on the actual events.

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        I should not be so amazed.

        The one thing that amazed me was that it was Erdoğan of all people who eventually found it politically expedient to lift the ban.

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      TIL

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