There is English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese and Swahili. There is Italian and Latin.
There are subdivisions upon subdivisions of dialects and pronunciations and body language that accompany each.
Language is truly a unique thing.
Each culture and region has its own, but there is no language quite like the language of College.
College students have adopted their own form of English dialect that would baffle most other people. We drink alcohol until the point of getting belligerent. (One that is hostile or aggressive, especially one that is engaged in war.) We use T-days - Tuesdays and Thursdays - as an excuse to go out and celebrate during the week. We pre-game, go to the party and then head to after-hours.
We cuss liberally, stuffing profanities in front of profanities, using them as nouns, verbs and F'n adjectives.
Abbreviations abound. There are RA's, RD's and SSA's. We live in Res. Halls and take classes like Soc., Poly Sci. and Pysch. If we want to get some extra help before a test in one of these subjects, we go to an SI session.
One of my favorite student-created college acronyms is DID - Dining Hall-induced Diarrhea.
Certain words become instilled with a great sense of power and appeal at college. Free
usually followed by the words pizza or concert, could just as easily be followed by swift kick to the butt and it would still catch our attention. Nap becomes something we crave, and after we take one we tend to have nap-face or a severe case of nap-breath.
I, too, would like to add some definitions to the ever-increasing dictionary of college language. These are some of the much-needed names I have come up with for certain reoccurring things on campus.
Pokees (Po-kees) n, pl: students, predominately males, who wear sandals, but do not take the time to trim their toenails before doing so until they grow to long, unhealthy lengths.
Everest Breath (Ev-er-est Breath) n: a heavy breathing caused by the combination of either Morton or Jefferson hills and being out-of-shape, heard most often as, Man I need to work out Morton - huff huff - just gave me Everest Breath
or Damn
that girl's got Everest Breath.
Ping-head n: a student who when first asked the question of Hey
would you want to go to Ping with me later? responds with an affirmation. Later, when the student is asked again, closer to Ping-time, the student declines. Used commonly as You're backing out on me again
dude? You're such a Ping-head.
Giraffing (Gir-raf-fing) v: the act of turning around in class to look at fellow students for no particular reason.
Chim Chim n: students who fly past you on bicycles, narrowly escaping injury to both parties and all other in the general vicinity. Named after Speed Racer's adroit but slightly annoying pseudo-sidekick.
Panic Room n: the atmosphere before and during a test getting handed back, usually accompanied by an eagerness and need to search for any flaw that might boost a students grade.
Bricked n, slang: tripping over a brick when you are with a group or many people are around to witness it: Man
you just got bricked!
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