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Originally Posted by GlennD
People keep saying 'banned'. Slaughterhouse 5 wasn't banned. It was removed from the library and from the curriculum. If a student were to get ahold of their own copy, he could read it at school with no fear of punishment.
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"Banned" is shorter to say than "a paid-for copy was removed from the school library and the curriculum because of a single complaint by a concerned parent whose children do not attend the school in question". Such is language...
Still, the use may not be completely incorrect.
ban
v. banned, ban·ning, bans
1. To prohibit, especially by official decree: The city council banned billboards on most streets. See Synonyms at forbid.
2. South African Under the former system of apartheid, to deprive (a person suspected of illegal activity) of the right of free movement and association with others.
3. Archaic To curse.
n.
1. An excommunication or condemnation by church officials.
2. A prohibition imposed by law or official decree: a ban on cigarette smoking on airplanes.
3. Censure, condemnation, or disapproval expressed especially by public opinion.
4. A curse; an imprecation.
5. A summons to arms in feudal times.
So call the "banned" in this thread to be a verbed noun. Which some readers find equally offensive, but I do not.
