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The flash cards case was not as clear cut as one would think: > The flashcards included every day words and phrases such as “day before yesterday,” “fat,” “thi
by fludlight 9y ago
The flash cards case was not as clear cut as one would think:
> The flashcards included every day
words and phrases such as “day before yesterday,” “fat,”
“thin,” “really,” “nice,” “sad,” “cheap,” “summer,” “pink,”
and “friendly.”
> However, they also contained such words as:
“bomb,” “terrorist,” “explosion,” “attack,” “battle,” “kill,” “to target,” “to kidnap,” and “to wound.”
http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/114292p.pdf http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/114292p.pdf
- zepto 9y agoI learned French in high school, but it is very rusty. The first thing I did last time I visited was to pick up a newspaper and try to read it, using a dictionary to look up the words I didn’t recognize. Those word lists look like just the kind of vocabulary you would need to read the front page of a newspaper.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoCrikey! Remind me not to invite you to parties. They're just words. Probably pretty dumb ones to take through airport security, but then it would be hard to find an action / thriller novel that didn't contain some or all of those words many times over. Or as the sibling comment points out any newspaper. You want a more egregious, what about detaining little old ladies in wheelchairs and children's book authors? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/28/in-that-moment-i-loathed-america-i-loathed-the-entire-country https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/28/in-tha...
- mikeash 9y agoWhat part of that is supposed to make it less clear cut?